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GIFT   OF 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 


RICHARD  HAYES  McCARTNEY 

Author  of  "The  Lady  of  Nations."  '•''The  Coming  of  the  King,"  "The 

Imperial"  "The  Anti-Christ"  "Songs  in  the  Waiting"  "Prince 

of  Peace?  "Gallipoli?  "The  Whip  of  God?  etc. 


NEW  YORK 

CHARLES   C.  COOK 
150  NASSAU  STREET 


COPYRIGHT,  1917,  BY 
FRANCES  SWEETMAN  HAYES  MCCARTNEY  MORSE 


TO 

THOMAS  MCCARTNEY 

AND   HIS  SONS, 

DANIEL  AND  JOHN  HAYES  MCCARTNEY. 

0  stalwart  Sire,  who  sleeps  in  Scottish  grave, 

1  thank  you  for  this  Spirit  that  you  gave, 
With  maxims  that  have  guided  me  from  youth; 
Thou  honest  man — a  man  of  sterling  truth — 
As  the  years  vanish  larger  to  my  mind, 

For  few  more  perfect  as  thy  life  to  find; 
True  Husband,  Father,  and  thy  son  is  proud 
No  fleck  of  a  dishonor  on  thy  shroud. 

Lo,  to  my  mind  come  from  the  Shadow  Land 
That  Sire  and  two  sons,  one  on  either  hand, 
I  greet  them  with  a  passionate,  deep  pride — 
For  each  a  man  that  no  man  dare  deride. 

O  Sailor  Brother!  where  e'er  England's  Flag 

Floated  in  warrings  never  thou  didst  lag — 

Crimea — Burma — China — New  Zealand: 

Where  England  cannons  roar  there  didst  thou  stand 

Fearless  in  battle,  lion  hearted,  brave — 

Thy  life  was  largely  spent  on  Ocean's  wave: 

And  surely  to  The  Mother  a  most  tender  Son: 

Alas,  to  die  when  even  prime  not  won — 

So  early  stricken — crossed  the  Ocean's  foam — 

Alas,  to  die  when  just  in  sight  of  home. 


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4  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  thou,  O  John,  the  hero  of  my  youth, 

My  ideal  Brother — wayward — yet  in  sooth 

A  follower  of  Lee  to  bitter  end — 

When  Southern  Land  her  Armaments  did  send 

To  field  of  battle — the  Confederacy 

Had  surely  not  more  daring  son  than  thee; 

Twice  wounded — yet  persistent  in  War's  ways 

Where  "Washington  Artillery"  did  blaze 

There  thou  wert  found — and  when  the  strife  was  o'er 

Back  to  the  civil  life — but  ever  bore 

The  legacy  of  wounds — but  now  you  sleep 

In  that  Queen  City  of  the  glorious  South 

Amid  companions  once  in  battle  rout — 

And  veterans  fond  memories  still  keep. 

Three  sleeping  far  apart — 'til  break  of  Day 

When  The  Lord  Comes — and  gladly  ye  obey 

His  trumpet  call — and  round  Him  gathering 

Hail  Him  your  Lord,  your  Saviour,  Conquering  King! 

Who  by  His  word  shall  make  all  warrings  cease, 

And  bring  to  Earth,  Joy,  Holiness  and  Peace. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 


Thou  Unclean  Spirit!  squatting  like  a  toad, 
Close  to  the  doorway  of  my  soul's  abode, 
With  eyes  that  blink  not  in  their  steady  gaze, 
Seeking  to  enter  in  a  thousand  ways 
Of  subtle  cunning,  searching  day  and  night 
With  ever  keen,  unflinching,  steady  sight, 
To  find  some  crevice  where  to  enter  in 
And  make  my  soul  a  brothel  of  foul  sin. 

Yet  past  soul's  precincts  thou  canst  come  no  more 
For,  lo,  The  Blood  is  sprinkled  on  the  door! 
Thou  hast  no  subtlety  to  enter  in, 
Tho'  from  without  can  tempt  my  soul  to  sin. 

I  pity  thee,  unclad,  uncanny  Thing, 

For  Thy  activities  can  only  bring 

Thee  bitter  sorrows,  and  the  hastening  end 

Will  only  find  thee  helpless,  without  friend 

To  share  thy  sorrows, — tho'  the  millions  stand 


6  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Close  to  thee,  yet  so  powerless  to  command 
The  smallest  cup  of  Love;  for  selfish  mind 
In  danger's  hour  is  to  itself  confined ; 
While  sin  at  first  may  have  a  bosom  friend 
To  utter  selfishness  at  last  its  end. 

I  pity  Thee,  thou  unclad,  noisome  Thing, 

Like  leaf  in  winter  wind  a  shivering ; 

What  once  thy  garment  answering  to  our  flesh? 

Surely  thy  spirit  once  was  held  in  mesh 

Of  Glorious  substance — beautiful  to  see 

More  delicate  than  human  flesh  can  be. 

What  once  thy  Covering?  surely  it  was  spun 

Out  of  the  finest  nature  'neath  the  sun, 

And  an  Imperial  splendor  on  thee  laid — 

One  of  the  Grandest  Creatures  that  CHRIST  made. 

Now  fallen  far  from  thy  once  high  estate, 

Now  maddened  at  thy  fell,  appalling  fate, 

Thou  hast  for  God  and  Man  enduring  hate 

That  falters  not  through  years  no  man  can  date. 

Surely  thy  pathway  since  that  awful  morn 

Thou  and  thy  Fellows  held  the  CHRIST  in  scorn, 

Hath  been  an  awful  track,  high  handed  crime 

That  never  wavered  in  the  course  of  time. 

I  am  most  curious — and  I  fain  would  ask — 
What  well  I  know  to  be  a  fruitless  task — 
Who  was  thy  Leader  in  that  wild  affray? 
Hast  still  That  Captain  charge  of  thee  to-day 
Who  bid  thee  shout  for  Satan  and  his  cause? 
I  may  as  well  'til  Doomsday,  waiting,  pause — 


'AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Never  an  answer — are  thy  thin  lips  sealed? 
And  I  may  only  guess  what  not  revealed. 
Has  CHRIST'S  Imperial  Mandate  put  a  ban 
Upon  your  lips  at  present — but  later  can 
Relate  thy  vile  Rebellion  to  a  man — 
How  Sin  commenced  and  Misery  began? 

Thou  bitter  Enemy,  who  ever  creeps 
Around  my  Being — and  that  never  sleeps — 
But  ever  art  alert,  and  sharply  keen, 
For  ever  present  thoj  not  heard,  nor  seen, 
Yet  surely  thou  art  ever  standing  near, 
So  ever  unseen  shadow  and  a  fear, 
A  shadow  dreadful,  for  thy  subtlety 
More  keen  than  ever  mortals  dare  to  be. 

Thou  a  fell  Gamester,  with  thy  loaded  dice, 
Playing  marked  cards,  and  no  ways  over  nice 
In  cheating,  heeding  not  if  art  found  out, 
Brazen  of  face,  and  with  a  braggart's  mouth 
Full  of  half  truths  whereby  to  cheat  the  soul, 
^Reckless  of  means — if  but  you  gain  control. 

Now  by  thy  sin  unclad — Lo,  Thou,  art  bare 
And  ever  seeketh  Human  Flesh  to  wear, 
Thou  canst  not  come  unbidden,  but  if  men 
Of  their  free  will  bid  thee  to  enter  in — 
Dwell  with  their  spirit — thou  art  free  to  go 
And  work  within  thy  victim  fear  and  woe: 
Tho'  learned  Professors  at  such  folly  scoff 
Surely  that  soul  from  GOD  and  CHRIST  cut  off. 


8  'AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

So  men  have  power  to  hold  thy  art  at  bay, 

Thou  canst  not  enter  if  I  wish  thee,  Nay, 

My  soul  a  citadel  thou  canst  not  win, 

Thou  hast  no  power  to  even  enter  in, 

Impregnable  to  all  thy  fierce  assault — 

If  thou  should  enter  truly  mine  own  fault, 

Deliberated  Wickedness,  without  cause 

Alone,  if  I  break  GOD'S  most  solemn  laws 

To  bid  thee  welcome,  this  would  CHRIST  defy — 

And  doing  so — Apostate  I  should  die! 

Tho'  I  may  laugh  and  scorn  thee  in  that  way 

Thou  standeth  every  moment  night  and  day 

To  tempt  by  dream,  by  thought,  by  sight,  by  sense; 

Thy  spirit  watcheth  ever  more  intense 

To  gain  my  will,  to  lead  my  feet  aside 

From  the  one  Path  trod  by  THE  CRUCIFIED  ! 

And  thus  am  I  beholden  to  thy  gaze— 

Lo,  thou  wouldst  lead  my  soul  in  many  a  maze, 

Make  error  seem  a  Truth — so  mix  the  two 

'Til  I  oft  mystified  as  which  the  true. 

For,  ah,  thou  art  most  cunning  to  deceive, 

Will  whisper:    "Such  indeed  you  should  believe!" 

So  fluently  will  quote  The  Blessed  Word 

Not  with  a  reasoning  foolish,  nor  absurd, 

But  Precious  Truth  so  mingled  with  thy  lies 

'Tis  surely  not  a  wonder  if  mine  eyes 

Readeth  as  GOD'S,  a  meaning  of  thine  own — 

So  simple  Faith  ofttimes  is  overthrown, 

Thy  "Thus  saith  GOD!"  so  subtly  is  said 

That  saints  of  CHRIST  oft  into  error  led. 

What  mortal  trained  like  thee  in  every  art  ? 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

No  line  in  life  but  Thou  hast  taken  part, 

Perfect  in  each  detail,  and  lacking  naught 

To  shape  the  human  heart  with  cunning  thought. 

And,  oh,  thy  Patience!  with  unruffled  will, 

Tho'  ofttimes  foiled  yet  patiently  art  still 

Set  to  accomplish  one  fell  daring  aim — 

As  if  the  doing  brought  Immortal  Fame. 

Yes,  Fame  abhorrent  to  the  Righteous  Soul! 

So  patient  in  thy  waiting  to  control 

The  heart,  the  mind,  the  actions  of  the  one 

Whom  thou  hast  set  thy  silent  hate  upon. 

Through  many  weary  ages  thou  wert  trained 
To  learn  thy  knowledge,  it  has  been  obtained 
By  close  attention,  and  unswerving  toil, 
Watching  humanity  in  peace  and  broil — 
Noting  of  failings,  springs  of  hate  and  pride, 
Watching  the  phases  of  a  life  that's  tried 
By  strong  or  weak  temptations — noting  well 
What  soul  triumphant,  and  what  soul  that  fell 
By  this  or  that ;  and  where  you  failed  or  gained, 
And  by  what  vice  the  Conquering  was  obtained. 

This  Human  scorning  what  another  took — 
That  one  entrammeled  by  lascivious  book — 
This  one  in  scorn  of  all  immoral  things 
But  to  the  covetousness  of  Gold  he  clings: 
Varied  Temptations — countless  in  detail — 
To  one  of  them  each  mortal  bound  to  fail. 
So  with  the  passing  of  each  weary  age 
Thou  hast  indeed  become  a  hoary  sage 


io  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

In  knowledge  which  temptation  is  the  one 
To  win  the  wretch  thy  care  is  set  upon. 
When  to  such  knowledge  crafty  cunning  wed 
Surely  no  wonder  men  are  hell-ward  led, 
The  Master  mind  that  strikes  with  Master  hand 
Hath  a  fell  power  few  mortals  can  withstand. 
Ah,  the  sad  winning  of  the  many  dead 
Whom  thy  seducing  to  Destruction  wed — 
Aye,  step  by  step  in  sinning — then  despair — 
Thou  to  their  fate  has  never  given  a  care. 

What  weary,  weary  ages  thou  hast  sinn'd — 
And,  oh,  the  Awfulness,  'twill  never  end! 
Unending  and  unceasing  in  thy  spite 
To  every  Law  that's  noble,  good  or  right; 
Unthinkable  the  ages  yet  to  be 
Living  and  sinning  still  continually — 
All,  all  the  Coming  Ages  yet  to  come 
Shall  find,  Vile  Soul, — lips  to  all  praises  ,dumb — 
I  stand  appalled — I  shudder  at  thy  fate — 
Thou  shalt  forever  be  a  living  Hate. 

And  better  than  myself — myself  you  know — 
To  fathom  all  my  moods  both  quick  and  slow, 
Just  knowing  where  to  tempt  and  to  betray, 
Where  show  thy  strength,  or  in  a  calm,  slow  way, 
Beckon  with  luring  images  to  crime 
Against  my  new  born  nature,  'til  the  slime 
Is  o'er  me — spittle  from  serpent  tongue 
Covers  the  victim  e'er  the  feast  begun. 
Thou  Unclean  Spirit,  squatting  with  sneer  grin, 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  n 

Tempting  my  soul  to  fell  and  bitter  sin — 
There  Hideous — tho'  not  seen  by  human  sight — 
And  yet  one  knows  at  morn,  at  noon,  at  night, 
A  Deluge  of  Lasciviousness  let  loose, 
That  action  may  have  fashioned  to  abuse 
Had  not  a  stronger  Spirit  called  a  halt, 
And  stayed  the  tempted  e'er  committed  fault. 

Full  well  I  know  that  thou  art  standing  there, 
Thou  palpitating  Thing,  more  thin  than  air, 
More  subtle  than  the  ether  in  thy  ways, 
I  cannot  motion  make,  nor  eyelids  raise, 
But  thou  beholdest;  whether  'tis  my  will 
To  come,  or  go,  thou  keepest  ever  still 
A  breathless  watchfulness  without  a  "break — • 
No  rest,  no  slumber  dost  thou  ever  take; 
A  Sentinel  forever  at  thy  post — 
And  surely  'tis  no  vanity  to  boast 
That  I  am  guarded  as  I  were  a  king 
By  this  uncanny,  unclad,  noisome  Thing. 

I  see  it  not,  nor  hear,  nor  feel,  nor  smell, 
Yet  eyes  that  never  slumber  on  me  dwell 
With  a  maliciousness  and  deadly  hate, 
For  be  it  morn,  or  noon,  or  midnight  late, 
That  Thing  stands  ready  ever  ill  to  do — 
A  Hidden  enemy  I  cannot  view, 
Nor  will  I  until  Death  will  open  eyes, 
Then  Spirit  measures  spirit — see  the  size, 
The  breadth,  the  form,  the  shape  of  this  fell  foe 
Who  followed  all  through  life  while  here  below ! 


12  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

What  hast  thou  not  seen,  O  Thou  Aged  Thing! 
What  centuries  hast  thou  seen  vanishing — 
The  rise  of  Nations — and  their  ghastly  fall? 
Thy  knowledge  surely  may  a  soul  appal ! 
For  surely  thou  wert  cruel  in  thy  ways 
Blood,  Rapine,  Pestilence,  had  naught  but  praise — 
The  blood  reeks  from  thy  ringer  tips — thine  eyes 
Saw  Human  suffering  only  to  despise. 
The  rush  of  kings  on  their  Imperial  way 
Through  seas  of  blood  made  thee  a  holiday — 
The  Cities  perished,  and  you  had  no  tears ; 
Growing  more  hardened  in  the  fading  years 
Thou  a  Monstrosity!  with  one  desire 
To  wreck  the  World  with  famine,  plague  and  fire, 
Unalterably  wicked  to  the  core 
Thine  evil  Nature  growing  more  and  more 
Apart  from  GOD — and  all  that  GOD  can  own, 
All  sense  of  Right  in  thy  heart  overthrown — 
So  wicked — only  wickedness  supreme — 
Of  wickedness  and  that  alone  you  scheme ! 

And  yet  were  I  to  see  you,  without  doubt, 

To  gaze  you  would  be  fair — a  childish  mouth, 

A  childish  look,  yes,  sweetly  childish  face, 

Simplicity  itself  hath  not  a  grace 

But  seemingly  'tis  thine — surely  thine  eye 

Most  open,  kindly,  one  may  not  decry 

The  cruel  hate  that  in  its  depths  doth  lurk, 

None  would  believe  that  Thou  wouldst  scheme  and  work 

The  Ruin  of  our  Race — then  laugh  at  it — 

Thou  Unclean  Spirit  of  Eternal  Pit. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  13 

Hast  Thou  not  changed  in  all  the  dreary  time — 
Is  thy  face  gauged  to  show  no  depths  in  crime — 
Look  you  still  fresh,  and  debonair,  and  young 
As  when  in  Paradise  you  danced  and  sung? 

How  long  it  is  since  first  you  opened  eyes 
On  the  Great  Heights  of  E&rthly  Paradise? 
Where  Spring  and  Summer  held  perpetual  sway, 
And  all  of  Life,  a  golden  holiday, 
No  Winter,  but  renewing,  no  decay 
Flower  petals  fell  but  e'er  they  touched  the  ground 
They  were  an  essence — vanished — never  found — 
To  mar  the  beauty  of  the  Garden-field. 
Tho'  rare  the  fruit,  their  sweetness  did  not  yield 
To  blight,  decay,  but  into  gases  went — 
So  never  on  the  ground  decaying  riches  spent. 

Ah,  what  a  world  of  music,  light  and  charm, 
No  beasts  of  prey,  nor  bird,  nor  viper  harm, 
No  weeds,  no  thorn,  no  thistles  to  annoy, 
Sweet  peace,  fair  happiness  and  holy  joy: 
Ah,  what  a  world,  gigantic  creatures  fed 
On  height,  on  plain,  by  river  grassy  bed, 
Without  a  sense  of  anger,  nor  of  pain, 
For  never  yet  a  single  creature  slain. 
Food  for  the  taking — nothing  to  provide 
The  mighty  creatures  on  the  land,  in  tide, 
Lay  down  together  in  contentment's  sleep 
With  never  watch  for  enemy  to  keep. 
Then  earth  not  torn,  nor  shattered  to  the  core, 
But  the  whole  earth  a  radiant  order  wore 


I4  AN  UNCLEAR  SPIRIT 

The  smile  of  CHRIST  !  and  every  strata  ran 
Unshattered,  bearing  out  an  ordered  plan 
With  no  disfigurement  of  any  kind — 
Lo,  Order,  Order  everywhere  to  find. 

Then  Thou  created — one  of  myriad  Host 
Who  on  the  Earth  filled  Heaven's  appointed  post 
E'er  Lucifer  created.    With  what  awe 
You  heard  promulgated  One  single  Law — 
The  Law  of  Love — Love  perfect  and  complete — 
Contentment  everywhere  and  Joy  most  sweet. 

Then  came  the  tidings  of  A  Coming  King — 
All  stood  expectant  what  the  hour  would  bring, 
For  on  the  Earth  rose  Palace  more  than  fair; 
Tabors  and  Pipes — and  music  very  rare 
Sounded  around  that  Dwelling  when  he  came 
He  burst  upon  the  World  in  glorious  flame, 
In  Jewels  exquisite,  in  dress  arrayed 
With  stones  most  precious  that  CHRIST  ever  made; 
That  morning  He  was  not — the  evening  saw 
A  new  made  Being  who  filled  all  with  awe ! 
Like  as  one  waking  from  a  slumber  rare 
Unseen  one  instant — the  next  instant  there 
As  he  had  flashed  from  some  high  distant  sphere — 
Like  Melody  all  sudden  to  the  ear! 
Angels  his  subjects.     He,  The  Anointed  One, 
Was  surely  more  than  fair  to  look  upon — 
CHRIST'S  Best  Creation!    Gloriously  He  stood 
Anointed  Cherub  of  that  multitude. 
Lo,  from  His  lips  a  glorious  burst  of  song — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  15 

That  in  an  instant  all  your  myriad  throng 
Swelled,  and  shook  Earth  with  the  vibrating  notes — 
As  His  song  leaped  up  from  uncounted  throats — 
For  not  a  single  creature  on  the  Earth 
Of  bird,  of  beast — all  things  that  had  a  birth — 
The  very  stones,  and  trees,  and  fertile  ground 
Had  found  a  tongue  to  give  a  praiseful  sound — 
A  song  of  Praise  to  GOD — Great  Lucifer! 
Appointed  Priest  for  every  worshipper; 
For  High,  on  Sapphire  Throne,  The  Glory  Blazed — 
The  ONE  ETERNAL  BEING  whom  all  praised! 
Walking  mid  fiery  stones  before  That  Throne 
Great  Lucifer,  as  Cherub,  walked  alone. 

Now  had  you  heard  of  CHRIST  up  to  that  hour  ? 
All  knew  in  GOD  alone  Creative  Power, 
But  it  was  told  you  that  in  DEITY 
THE  BEING  ONE — yet  verily  still  THREE! 
Up  to  that  hour,  perchance,  ye  had  not  known 
THE  SON  was  sitting  on  Eternal  Throne — 
CHRIST  THE  CREATOR — HE,  and  HE  alone — 
Builded  The  Worlds,  shaped  every  zone 
To  veriest  atom — under  His  control 
As  it  had  pleased  His  GRAND  IMPERIAL  SOUL. 

How  long  did  Lucifer  hold  Cherub  Post 
Guiding  the  praises  of  Angelic  Host, 
Was  it  for  Ages  ?  for  a  month  ?  A  day  ? 
How  dumb  thou  art — nor  answer,  Yes,  or  Nay. 
When  did  he  first  allegiance  cast  aside? 
How  first  conceived  the  thought  that  brought  Sin's  Pride 


16  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Was  it  some  Revelation  from  the  Throne : 
That  ONE  was  Coming  who  had  right  alone 
To  rule  in  Heaven  and  Earth,  in  every  place 
Where  GOD  displayed  Creation's  Art  and  grace? 

Thou  art  most  silent — Did  CHRIST  close  thy  lips, 
Must  thou  be  silent  of  that  great  eclipse 
Of  Holiness  in  Lucifer,  and  those 
Who  in  a  foolish  Hate  of  CHRIST  arose, 
And  flocked  around  the  Rebel's  banner  where 
Hate  blossomed  first  polluting  all  the  air? 
He  would  not  own  THE  CHRIST,  nor  condescend 
In  true  allegiance  on  his  knees  to  bend, 
Sin  covered,  a  new  Garment,  and  he  strode 
Defiant — claiming  Earth  his  own  abode — 
His  own,  his  right — beneath  his  ruling  rod 
Crying:  "I  am!    I  sit  in  seat  with  GOD !" — • 

Now  what  persuaded  ye,  the  rank  and  file, 
To  treat  with  scorn  the  Greetings  of  CHRIST'S  smile, 
To  scout  authority  of  CHRISTLY  Law? 
What  was  the  cause  to  rend  all  sense  of  awe 
Within  your  souls,  and  set  your  hearts  aflame 
With  malice,  hatred,  coupling  CHRIST'S  name 
With  such  indignities  as  ne'er  before 
Was  heard  in  any  world  of  sea  and  shore? 
Hate  coined  new  words,  and  made  fell  currency, 
That  even  very  devils  ashamed  must  be 
Of  such  a  coinage  and  then  spat  them  forth — 
THE  LORD,  CREATOR  CHRIST  your  butt  of  sport 
His  greeting  mocked  at — and  despised  His  hand 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  17 

HE  had  stretched  out  to  each  one  of  your  band ! 

What  was  there  in  your  Lucifer  that  won 
Your  willing  hearts  thus  to  despise  GOD'S  SON? 


Aye,  but  we  guess,  and  guess,  the  mind  will  strain 
Some  little  light  on  such  strange  Hate  to  gain 
Some  scrap  of  Knowledge — be  it  e'er  so  small — 
What  was  the  Cause  of  Lucifer's  great  Fall? 
And  all  our  guessing  vain — yet  still  we  guess — 
We  cannot  help  the  peering  none  the  less. 

Perchance,  it  was  CHRIST'S  form  ye  thought  not  good- 
His  Grand  Simplicity  misunderstood — 
Perchance,  HE  stood  in  Form  that  yet  should  be 
The  shape,  the  matter  of  Humanity ! 
Perchance,  His  Splendor  hidden  in  the  mask 
Of  Flesh,  that  made  it  possible  to  ask : 
"This  one  Supreme  in  all  Created  Space! 
This  paltry  Form!   This  placid,  gentle  face, 
This  one  The  Great  Imperial!    This  one  who 
Created — tossed  forth  worlds  to  angel  view 
As  they  were  but  a  pastime  to  create !" 

"Now  look  at  Lucifer!    Supremely  grand — • 
What  Majesty  by  motion — One  to  stand 
Unmatched  by  any  in  the  orbs  of  space! 
The  splendor  of  a  GOD  beams  from  his  face! 
Lo,  Royalty  hath  blossomed  to  a  flower 
That  fills  the  earth  with  Fragrance  of  its  Power !" 


i8  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Thus  did  ye  judge  the  two  that  fatal  morn? 
And  turned  the  back  on  CHRIST  in  acid  scorn, 
And  bending  servile  at  The  Rebel's  throne: 
"Hail  Lucifer !  'tis  thee  alone  we  own !" 

How  long  did  CHRIST  plead  in  His  graciousness 
Loathing  to  blast — with  only  wish  to  bless — 
Did  HE  not  try  to  win  in  thousand  ways  ? 
Surely  His  Presence  lingered  many  days 
The  outstretched  hands  that  pleaded  all  in  vain 
To  win  that  Glorious  Rebel  back  again — 
At  last  in  warning  did  HE  show  the  Path 
In  which  the  Rebels  would  find  surely  wrath — 
The  eloquence  of  CHRIST  was  all  in  vain ! 

That  day  there  was  a  parting  of  the  ways ! 
Perchance,  companion,  that  with  you  sang  praise, 
In  the  bright,  ne'er  to  be  forgotten  days, 
Parted  in  sorrow  from  you  with  heart  rent 
In  pain,  in  anguish,  in  astonishment, 
That  you  should  thus  the  CHRISTLY  rule  deride. 

Two-thirds  of  all  Earth's  angels  cast  aside 
Allegiance  to  THE  CHRIST — the  other  third 
Believing,  trusting  in  CHRIST'S  gracious  word 
Gathered  behind  HIM,  loving,  undismayed. 
And  you  and  yours,  whom  your  high  birth  betrayed, 
Behind  Proud  Lucifer, 

There  face  to  face 

Stood  the  two  leaders — surely  for  good  space 
THE  CHRIST  stood  pleading  with  grand  eloquence; 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  19 

And  Lucifer  with  pride  o'erruling  every  sense 
Scorning  all  mercy.    Daring  CHRISTLY  wrath 
Stood  there  Defiant  Rebel  in  CHRIST'S  path. 

Then  suddenly  in  Ocean  and  in  Plain 
Sin's  virus  blossomed  in  each  Creature  great! 
Lo,  dire  confusion  in  earth's  vast  estate ! 
Behold,  a  New  Thing  seen  on  earth,  in  flood, 
A  sickening  scent  to  heaven — Blood !  'twas  Life's  Blood ! 
The  rush  of  battle,  the  fell  deadly  close, 
Creatures  once  friends  fought  now  as  deadly  foes* 

Murder's  first  cry  fell  on  angelic  ears! 
So  strange,  so  bitter  that  remotest  spheres 
With  consternation  heard,  trembling,  afraid, 
As  if  Eternal  Peace  was  dead — and  laid 
In  the  first  grave  that  ever  had  been  made ! 
Lo,  Beings  of  Eternal  Ages  then 
For  the  first  time  heard  language  of  foul  sin ! 
Creation  heard  it  with  a  blanched  face 
From  center  to  the  outposts  of  dead  space. 

The  crushing  out  of  Life — the  awful  strife 
That  ran  in  each  vein  of  Creative  Life — 
Then  Earth  and  sea  one  reeking  charnel  place — 
'Twas  Blood,  red  blood  on  every  creature's  face — 
The  strong  most  wicked — while  the  weaker  one 
On  weaker  still  pounced  in  fell  wrath  upon — 
The  Birds,  the  Beasts,  the  Fishes  of  the  Sea, 
Were  drunken  in  the  sweep  of  sin's  iniquity. 
'Til  CHRIST  in  pity  to  destruction  hurled 
The  tarnished,  blood  stained,  sin  accursed  World! 


20  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

As  a  child's  toy  house  in  a  giant's  hand 
So  unseen  Forces  crushed  the  Sea  and  Land, 
And  strata  crushed  through  strata  as  if  glass 
'Til  all  confused,  conglomerated  mass. 
Then  first  Confusion,  shrieking  in  the  world, 
Order  and  Beauty  to   destruction   hurled, 
Foundation  stratas  thrown  to  dizzy  heights, 
The  upper  strata  sunk  by  crushing  might, 
The  Unseen  Forces  with  their  sullen  thunder 
Shattered  the  pillars  of  the  World  asunder — 
'Til  not  one  spot  upon  the  upper  plains 
But  fell  confusion  of  the  direst  reigns — 
A  miry  sea   ran  molten — then  appal — • 
A  Horror  of  Great  Darkness  over  all ! 


And  ye,  the  Rebels,  naked  Spirits  then — 
Shriveled  your  covering  in  the  breath  of  sin — • 
Fled  with  dismay  into  the  outer  space 
Lo !  the  Dark  Pit  to  be  your  dwelling  place ! 
Unclad,  uncovered  Spirits,  crying  to  be  clad 
Yet  mid  your  terrors  still  with  malice  mad. 


And  then  how  many  ages  passed  way 
With  no  repenting  of  thy  sinning  day — 
Growing  more  bitter  in  thy  hate  of  GOD 
As  on  thee  laid  His  grim  chastising  rod. 
And  did  HE  leave  thee  wand'rer  from  that  Pit 
(Of  deadly  Darkness  ne'er  by  sunlight  lit) 
Out  to  the  realms  where  all  the  universe, 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  21 

Except  the  Earth,  CHRIST  praises  did  rehearse. 

And  did  THE  LORD  allow  ye  to  go  where 

The  sun  shot  splendor — to  the  moon  all  bare — 

And  in  those  regions  give  you  breathing  space — 

Was  the  Sun  made  Satanic  Palace  Place — 

For  surely  sinister  in  after  years 

Ye  made  men  worship  these  two  gracious  spheres — 

The  Home  of  Satan  made  a  God  for  man — 

And  so  contrived  that  subtle,  devilish  plan, 

Of  worshipping  the  Devil  in  such  guise 

As  seemed  to  foolish  man  devoutly  wise. 


Did  you  oft  come  to  see  that  awful  place 
That  once  had  been  a  glory — now  disgrace — 
Peer  through  its  blackness,  and  its  raging  storm, 
The  burial  place  of  your  once  glorious  form. 
Did  you  in  flight  go  round,  and  round,  to  see 
Only  confusion  and  tumultuous   sea — 
A  horror  of  Great  Darkness  where  the  wind 
Moaned  o'er  the  hidden  Bodies  of  your  Kind. 
Was  not  earth's  course  erratic,  here  and  there, 
Lost,  wandering  thing  that  had  no  atmosphere; 
Where  once  stood  palace  garden  fields  to  see 
Now  lashed  a  fury,  weird,  and  muddy  sea. 


And  did  there  come  a  time  when  suddenly 
Michael,  Archangel,  driving  thine  and  thee 
Out  from  thy  hovering,  drove  thee  to  a  star 
Where  you  sat  down  and  watched  it  from  afar. 


22  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Then  from  High  Heaven  a  WONDROUS  PRESENCE  came- 
A  cloudy  Pillar  hiding  Restless  Flame — 
A  brooding  as  it  were  above  the  earth 
That  Ball  of  Desolation  and  of  Dearth. 
Then  did  you  hear  His  Voice: 

"LET  THERE  BE  LlGHT  !" 

And  lo,  the  horror  fled,  and  to  your  sight 

A  softening  splendor  shone  across  the  sea 

Bathing  the  waves  'till  all  was  fair  to  see. 

And  the  next  morn  you  peered  with  anxious  sight — 

Again  that  VOICE,  and  straightway  mountain  height 

And  hill,  and  plain,  and  prairie — and  vast  space — 

Rose  from  the  sea  and  held  aloft  their  place. 

Lo,  morning  after  morning  that  same  VOICE 

Did  will  new  Wonders,  making  earth  rejoice; 

'Til  looking  over  bird,  and  beast,  and  field,  and  flood, 

PRESENCE  contended,  said : 

"BEHOLD,  'TIS  GOOD!" 

Then  didst  thou  see  with  anguish  sharply  keen 
Envy  at  heart,  dire  hatred  and  vile  spleen, 
The  Man,  stand  up  as  very  Lord  and  King — 
While  new  Creations  to  him  homage  bring. 

Didst  thou  see  Adam  waking  from  repose 
From  his  sweet  bed  of  lily,  and  white  rose, 
Wondering  to  see  reclining  by  his  side 
The  Beauteous  Eve — his  gracious  splendid  Bride — 
What  spleen  in  heart,  and  eye  to  see  the  pair 
Glorious,  unclad,  go  wandering  here  and  there, 
Hand  clasped  in  hand  so  lovingly  together 
All  in  the  splendor  of  that  Spring  time  weather. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  23 

What  hate  in  all — desire  to  work  them  woe — 
Alone  did  Satan  on  fell  errand  go, 
For  Angels  had  no  orders  to  confine 
Prince  Lucifer  by  any  bound  or  line; 
Yea,  often  to  GOD'S  PRESENCE  still  he  went — • 
Tho'  fruitless  was  his  asking  and  intent — 
Yet  still  His  MAKER  held  him  not  at  bay, 
When  came  the  Sons  of  GOD  on  their  set  day, 
Could  also  Satan  enter  council  place, 

Complain  and  cavil  before  GOD'S  own  face — 

And  why  permitted  thus  to  come  and  go? 
Alone  THE  TRINITY  such  purpose  know. 

Where  waited  you  'til  Satan  did  return? 
Surely  your  mind  alert,  and  thoughts  did  burn, 
A  restlessness  that  made  all  quivering 
As  to  the  news  Satanic  hate  would  bring — 
Moving  like  wild  beasts  restless  to  and  fro — 
Speechless  for  hours — and  then  with  braggart  show 
A  prophesying  Lucifer  would  win 
And  blast  the  new  World  with  the  Curse  of  sin ! 
Yea,  did  ye  boast  that  in  a  little  time 
These  two  would  feel  upon  their  souls  sin's  slime, 
Would  babble  hate  right  in  the  face  of  GOD — 
Then  new  world  wrecked  beneath  chastising  rod? 

In  my  mind's  eye  I  see  the  serpent  stand 
His  radiant  wings  the  spicy  breezes  fanned, 
More  subtle,  winsome  than  all  other  beasts 
Tempting  the  Woman  to  his  fatal  feasts. 
'Twas  good  to  taste  and  it  would  make  her  wise, 


24  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

She  would  have  then  Omnipotent's  swift  eyes 
From  whence  no  knowledge  could  escape  or  hide. 
What  was  this  Feast  that  Evil  could  provide? 
Evil!  what  was  it — and  really  was  it  known 
Only  to  HIM  who  sat  on  Highest  Throne? 
No  Angel  she  had  seen  could  ever  tell 
What  was  this  Evil — what  its  magic  spell — 
This  the  unknowable  was  at  her  hand! 
Beneath  the  laden  branches  did  she  stand — 
Her  dainty  fingers  touched  the  golden  skin — • 
What  was  the  secret  sweetness  hid  within? 
She  stood  a  tremble — drew  her  hand  away — 
What  noise  was  that — a  bird  upon  rose  spray — 
On  flower  alighting — where  had  Adam  gone — 
She  was  alone.     How  fair  to  look  upon — 
Tempting  the  fruit  within  her  white  hand  lay 
But  from  the  stem  'twas  not  yet  plucked  away 
And  thus  the  silken  hissing  still  anigh : 

"He  did  not  say  that  you  should  surely  Die !" 
Then  grew  Eve's  mind  confused  as  to  the  words 
That  surely  without  doubting  were  THE  LORD'S! 

The  Serpent's  question  in  her  ear  kept  ringing — 
To  Heaven  each  bird  had  seemed  to  cease  its  singing- 
Lo,  there  was  silence  in  that  Garden  fair 
Tempter  and  Tempted  scarcely  breathed  there — 
Out  of  her  ears  had  fallen  all  other  sound — 
O'er  all  a  silence  heavy  and  profound — • 
As  earth  and  all  upon  it  stood  to  see 
How  far  would  reach  her  curiosity. 


'AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  25 

The  velvet  fingers  tightened  on  the  fruit 
Her  eyes,  her  lips  were  eloquently  mute 
Asking  momentous  question — Can  I  dare 
The  knowledge  of  This  Evil  with  GOD  share? 
Full  in  her  eyes  stood  curiosity : 
"What  is  this  Evil,  GOD  would  keep  from  me? 
He  knows  it — then  it  surely  must  be  good 
Have  I  in  sooth  His  words  misunderstood?" 

The  fingers  tightened,  and  the  will  grew  strong, 
And  suddenly  the  World  was  lost  to  song — • 
Lo,  Evil  entered  sliming  all  the  sweet 
As  Mother  Eve  crunched  fruit  betwixt  her  teeth. 

And  as  Eve  ate  the  fruit,  Lo,  was  not  there 
A  message  sent  by  Satan  through  the  air — 
And  all  misgivings  vanished  in  the  shout 
That  like  as  lightning  sped  from  mouth  to  mouth 
Until  the  very  Pit  with  laughter  riven 
That  victory  to  Satan  wiles  was  given. 

When  Lucifer  came  back  his  face  had  fain 
Hidden  from  view  his  victory  had  stain 
Upon  the  grandeur — for  He  hid  the  words — • 
"But  He  shall  crush  thy  head"— that  subtle  threat 
Not  with  the  usual  braggadocio  met — 
Nor  did  he  tell  a  single  worshipper 
Who  shouted  wildly  "Hail  Prince  Lucifer  I" 
Did  not  the  words  still  rankle  in  his  brain — 
To  make  his  victory  a  thing  most  vain — 
THIS  SON  OF  HER  whom  he  had  led  astray 


26  AN  UNCLEAR  SPIRIT 

Would  surely  meet  him  in  a  deadly  fray, 

And  tho'  at  first  his  victory  was  real, 

Yet  if  he  only  crushed  His  foeman's  heel 

What  were  the  use  if  Eve's  SON  yet  should  be 

The  Victor  o'er  the  fell  adversary! 

He  shrank  from  something — what  he  did  not  know — 

But  ever  on  his  mind  a  sense  of  woe — 

Vengeance  was  on  his  track  nor  would  forego 

At  any  moment  now  may  come  fell  blow — 

Should  he  be  unto  Nothingness  then  hurled 

Like  as  in  former  ages  his  own  World — 

Should  there  be  ending  to  his  swelling  thought — 

Blankness  in  Soul  and  every  sense  be  wrought — 

Nonentity — what  meant  the  words  CHRIST  said : 

"Thou  shalt  bruise  heel — but  He  shall  crush  thy  head!" 


And  on  that  night — when  Eve  and  Adam  fell — 
Was  there  on  earth  a  revelry  of  Hell — 
Venom  of  hate  like  wine  was  deeply  quaffed — 
After  centuries  of  Silence  Satan  laughed. 
Before  that  hour  how  dreary  was  thy  fate 
Dreary  mid  millions,  lone  and  desolate, 
Nothing  to  do  but  wait,  and  wait,  and  wait, 
Nothing  to  do  but  hate,  and  hate,  and  hate, 
When  suddenly  this  new  world  sprang  to  view — 
Thy  hate  to  such  a  swelling  torment  grew 
It  seemed  as  if  there  must  be  found  some  way 
To  give  thy  hate  an  outlet — give  thee  prey — 
And  evil  take  carnival  holiday! 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  27 

Ah,  what  wild  madness  when  they  feet  once  more 
Trod  thy  old  home  (tho'  changed  the  sea  and  shore) 
Didst  thou  torment  the  fish,  the  birds,  the  beasts 
Making  each  savage,  cruel  in  its  feasts, 
Changed  them  to  monsters  with  mad  fury  blind — 
Creatures  once  peaceful  eating  their  own  kind — • 
What  ghastly  horrors  in  the  world  that  night 
For  myriad  demons  trooping  came  in  flight 
Like  Birds  of  Carrion — the  world  around 
Shivered  and  shuddered  at  your  croaking  sound ! 
Surely  poor  Eve  and  Adam  shrank  afraid 
In  thicket  crouched,  confounded  and  dismayed, 
So  had  not  elect  Angels  held  the  keep 
Their  weary  eyes  had  lost  the  boon  of  sleep; 
Surely  some  wicked  spirit  in  fell  spite 
Had  slain  them  e'er  the  passing  of  the  night — 
But  Michael's  Hosts  beat  back  the  rebel  van 
To  hold  intact  the  crushed  and  trembling  man. 

And  then  were  ye  astonished  not  to  see 
A  young  world  wrecked  in  dire  contumely, 
The  rather  that  a  promise  given  to  man 
That  CHRIST  would  not  be  foiled  in  this  new  plan. 
And  then  astonishment  came  on  apace 
The  Beings  new  of  fructifying  race 
With  sons  and  daughters  fair  born  to  the  twain, 
So  hope  of  their  disaster  all  in  vain. 

The  Mystery  was  not  thine  to  unravel — 
And  tho'  proud  Lucifer  may  fume  and  cavil 
Before  GOD'S  Throne,  declaring  that  for  sin 
GOD  must  destroy  the  world  and  all  therein — 


28  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Demanding  simple  justice,  that  the  blow 
Of  GOD  should  send  The  Human  to  fell  woe! 
For  hidden  was  The  Mystery  of  grace — 
Then  Satan  knew  behind  GOD'S  smiling  face 
There  was  a  plan  of  Righteousness  to  meet — 
The  curse  of  sin  not  victory  complete. 
A  hint  in  the  shed  Blood — at  first  a  hint 
But  GOD  was  hiding  yet  His  Great  intent 
Redemption  by  His  CHRIST — who  yet  should  be 
Redeemer  of  The  Race  on  Calvary! 

Didst  thou  see  Cain  and  Abel  in  the  field 
One  bringing  Lamb — the  other  bringing  yield 
Of  his  own  toiling,  he  would  pay  THE  LORD — 
While  Abel  would  be  beggar  at  GOD'S  board ! — • 

Lo,  When  THE  PRESENCE  came  of  THE  I  AM — 
When  fell  His  fire  accepting  the  Slain  Lamb, 
And  Cain  all  sullen  at  his  altar  stood, 
Full  of  rich  fruit,  but  not  a  splash  of  blood, 
Unnoticed  was  the  labor  of  his  hands — 
The  Presence  Passing — and  unblessed  He  stands — 
Didst  thou  see  Satan  creeping  then  anear — 
First  breath  of  murder  in  the  human  ear — 
And  then  the  stealthy,  subtle  murderer's  tread, 
The  first  fell  blow— at  his  feet  Abel  dead— 
And  then  a  cry  of  bitterness  apace! 
When  on  cold  form  a  woman  hid  her  face 
And  raised  the  bitter  cry  that  shall  not  cease 
'Til  Comes  again  the  Blessed  Prince  of  Peace! 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  29 

The  world  Before  The  Flood — you  saw  it  all 
Its  cities — Art  Museums — princely  palace  wall — 
Science,  and  Art,  and  Poesy,  were  supreme 
Our  present  knowledge  like  Barbarian  dream 
Compared  to  that — which  was  man's  golden  Prime. 
Had  not  they  seen  the  Man  who  saw  GOD'S  face? 
Therefore,  to  this  day  noblest  of  our  Race, 
With  intellects  that  were  not  yet  impaired 
Fresh  yet  as  'twere  from  very  hands  of  GOD, 
Marred  not,  not  yet  disfigured  by  sin's  rod, 
Still  to  their  eyes  the  lights  of  Eden  flared — 
Strongest  of  intellect,  brawniest  of  brain, 
Earth  has  not  seen  the  like  since — nor  again 
Until  THE  LORD  CHRIST  CLEANSE  the  World  of  Sin, 
And  GOD  comes  back  one  more  to  dwell  with  men. 
Yet  were  the  minds  of  men  as  if  a  slime 
Of  wickedness  all  thick  on  heart  and  tongue, 
WTien  ever  song  defiance  to  GOD  sung: 
Science,  and  Art,  and  Power  took  delight 
To  crown  all  wrong — when  Avarice  was  Right — 
When  not  one  Law  of  GOD  but  held  absurd — 
When  Satan  hovered  a  vile  Carrion  Bird 
Brooding  in  wickedness  and  fell  desire 
To  breed  in  man  as  'twere  a  blazing  fire 
Of  Hate  to  GOD — and  rose  to  Heaven  a  stench 
That  only  a  Destructive  Flood  could  quench ! 

And  then  that  awful  Day  when  suddenly 
The  Rain  rushed  down  as  loosed  the  upper  sea, 
When  earth's  foundations  'neath  men's  feet  gave  way — 
Lo,  water — water — Universal  sway 


30  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Swept  men  as  flies  before  its  roaring  tide — 

All  lost — except  who  in  the  Ark  abide. 

The  hissing,  foaming  waters  in  mad  whirl 

Sucked  man  and  beast  in  such  wild  maelstrom  swirl 

That  none  had  strength  to  help  its  kith  or  kin, 

The  feet  no  time  a  mountain  top  to  win — 

Man  could  not  cry  to  man — creature  to  kind — 

For  such  a  mighty  rushing  of  the  wind 

Was  never  heard — and  men  will  hear  no  more — ? 

For  GOD  let  loose  the  sea  upon  the  shore — 

The  ban  upon  its  bounds  was  lifted  then — 

The  hissing,  mighty  Oceans  rushing  in 

Throttled  the  earth — and  swallowed  it  from  sight — 

Above  the  billows  not  a  mountain  height 

For  Gravitation  in  that  lawless  hour 

Grew  wanton  in  its  movements — lost  its  power — 

Struck  between  wind  and  water  by  such  force 

The  Earth  had  surely  shifted  in  its  course — 

For  buffeted  it  lay  a  helpless  thing — 

Shivering  and  shaking  in  its  suffering! 

Great  Horror  thine — was  it  from  a  star 
You  watched  Destruction's  Battle  from  afar — 
And  watching — wonder  how  the  Ark  would  ride 
Amid  the  ice  floes — and  the  shifting  tide. 
Or  did  you  hover  near — not  to  alight — 
For  Heavenly  Host  were  guarding  through  long  night 
When  never  sun  broke  on  the  icy  flood 
Like  something  stagnant — then  the  waters  stood 
Chill  and  still  chiller — waxing  strength  each  day 
One  sheet  of  Ice  across  the  whole  world  lay — 


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So  that  the  World  for  Sinning  paid  full  price 
There  came  upon  the  Earth  The  Age  of  Ice! 

Didst  thou  see  Noah  coming  from  the  ark — 
Didst  thou  behold  him  when  his  fame  grew  dark — 
Didst  thou  see  Nimrod  rule  with  proud  disdain 
Holding  GOD'S  Rights  and  Man's  as  something  vain 
Ruling  all  creatures  with  a  cruel  hand — 
Spawning  Idolatry  in  every  land. 
Saw  you  when  men  set  laws  of  GOD  aside 
Saw  them  rear  Babel  with  defiant  pride — 
Saw  GOD  confound  their  tongues — and  so  afraid 
Flee  from  the  spot  where  once  their  hope  had  laid. 
Thou  sawest  Abraham,  that  Prince  of  Men, 
While  scoffers  scoffed  that  journey  lone  begin, 
Seeking  GOD'S  Place,  and  Peace,  and  joy,  and  strength. 
Didst  Thou  see  Joseph  when  his  brothers  sold — 
Went  later  down  to  Egypt  to  behold 
The  Captive  next  to  Pharaoh  on  throne. 
Then  didst  thou  see  his  people  overthrown 
Bondslaves,  brick  making  under  lash  and  heel — 
Saw  Moses  standing  calmly  in  the  Path 
Daring  Proud  Pharaoh  and  nations  wrath. 
What  of  the  plagues — didst  thou  behold  the  nine — 
And  wondered  when  Lamb's  blood  was  made  a  sign 
On  Lintel  and  door  post — why  such  a  thing? 
And  then  that  night  saw  Egypt  shuddering 
When  every  household  woke  to*  find  the  dead 
Was  he  who  should  in  future  have  been  head — 
Saw  horror,  fright  and  dread  on  every  face — 
Beheld  the  thrusting  forth  of  Israel's  Race. 


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Saw  Egypt  then  recovering  from  mad  fright 
Her  chariots  rushing  in  Imperial  might — 
Saw  Moses'  outstretched  hand — that  awful  sea 
Flow  over  Egypt's  might  and  hide  continually. 
Didst  you  tempt  Israel  in  wilderness — 
Saw  Achan  stealing  Babylonish  dress — 
Tempt  Midianitish  women  to  allure 
The  Israelitish  heart  with  slights  impure. 
Didst  thou  lead  Samson  to  where  Delilah  lay, 
Whispered  to  her  how  she  could  win  her  prey. 
Didst  thou  see  David  in  his  Shepherd's  dress 
Singing  his  sweet  songs  in  the  wilderness — • 
Writing  the  song  that  all  the  nations  sing 
Girding  the  world  by  Faiths'  celestial  wing. 
Wert  thou  with  one  who  tempted  Solomon — 
Lightsome  to  gaze — and  soft  to  look  upon — 
Her  only  covering  that  great  wealth  of  hair — 
Set  you  her  silken  lashes  to  ensnare — 
Held  him  with  laughter — sweeet  alluring  nod — 
Kissed  him  to  building  altar  for  strange  God. 

Wert  thou  a  minister  to  Jezebel — 
Wert  thou  with  Ahab  when  from  GOD  he  fell — 
Stood  thou  on  Carmel  when  Baal's  Prophets  cried- 
(Saw  thou  the  flame  of  GOD  in  downward  flight 
Burn  flesh,  altar,  lick  up  water  in  men's  sight — ) 
Saw  Kishon's  waters  with  their  life  blood  dyed — 
Didst  thou  outstrip  Ahab-Elijah  race 
Whisper  to  Jezebel  the  dire  disgrace — 
Rousing  her  wrath  so  that  the  prophet  fled 
Afraid  of  price  of  blood  upon  his  head — 


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Then  didst  thou  laugh  when  trod  by  horses'  feet 
The  pampered  flesh  of  Jezebel  dogs  eat? 

How  thou  didst  hate  The  Israelitish  Race, 
Fierce  Ravening  Wolf,  that  never  slacked  thy  pace 
To  drag  them  down  to  infamy's  disgrace ! 
This  Race  GOD  choose  to  win  for  HIM  the  earth — 
Proud  Satan  hated  from  its  hour  of  birth — 
He  made  surrounding  Nations  slay  and  vex 
Wooed  by  Idolatry,  and  sin  of  sex, 
Brought  them  from  GOD'S  FACE  to  a  sea  of  slime — 
Made  them  the  slaves  of  Passion  and  of  Crime — 
Until  outraged  was  GOD'S  sweet  Patience  time — 
So  let  their  foes  triumphant  o'er  them  reign 
For  Seventy  years.    Brought  Judah  back  again 
To  Salem — But  Her  Glory  Day  had  flown — 
When  Roman  Eagles  plucked  her,  made  her  moan, 
E'en  then  all  blinded  to  Redemption  Hour 
She  slighted  Her  MESSIAH  and  His  Power 
HE  would  have  gathered  her  and  made  her  Great 
But  she  despised  HIM  for  His  low  estate — 
Made  Roman  Crucify  with  Curse  of  Hate — 
And  since  that  time  stands  Salem  Desolate! 

Thou  surely  led  the  flower  clad  woman  throng 
Whose  red  lips  sang  the  Bacchanalian  song; 
Who  strove  to  do  what  Venus'  Priests  would  say, 
And  make  all  virtue  to  fell  vice  a  prey ! 
Was  even  One  more  dearer  than  the  rest 
Who  made  a  garden  in  thine  arid  breast, 
Who  woke  to  life  the  springs  you  deemed  all  dry, 


34  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

When  love  again  gave  tenderness  to  eye. 
Was  she  a  Dancing  Girl,  who  loved  the  sun, 
Who  from  the  sea  and  sky  her  colors  won, 
Standing  resplendent  in  a  beauty  clad 
That  made  the  pulse  of  all  the  gazers  mad  ? 
Didst  thou  not  throw  great  pearls  in  her  lap 
To  make  her  more  resplendent — if  they  could; 
Didst  thou  not  rob  the  mine,  the  loom,  the  wood, 
For  gold,  for  purple,  and  for  spices  rare, 
To  deck  her  beauty,  and  perfume  her  hair, 
So  made  her  precious  in  the  thought  of  men 
Their  adoration  and  their  power  to  win: 
Then  came  there  jealousy — you  deemed  amiss 
That  others  held  in  arms,  in  press,  in  kiss ; 
You  grew  morose  and  savage  at  the  sight. 
And  then,  perchance,  it  was  a  summer  night — 
She  danced  with  such  voluptuous  passion  rare 
That  men  went  mad,  and  all  the  midnight  air 
Rang  with  their  crying,  and  they  bore  her  home 
With  honors  Caesar  never  had  at  Rome. 
Then  when  some  favored  lover  held  her  fast 
Thy  jealousy  came  on  as  tempest  blast, 
So  squatting,  like  a  toad,  behind  his  ear 
You  whispered  thoughts — the  vilest  one  may  hear — 
Thus  kindled  jealous  fires  'til  quarrels  came, 
And  thou  in  both  was't  fanning  jealous  flame — • 
So  then  while  his  hand  coiled  her  yellow  hair, 
His  knife  gleamed  in  the  moonlight  striking  where 
Her  heart  surcharged  with  passionate  hot  blood. 
A  cry  of  Horror — on  the  couch  aflood 
Of  that  which  is  the  life — now  ebbing  fast: 


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Out  with  keen  cry  the  wild  assassin  passed 
And  thou  wert  left  alone  with  cold  white  clay! 
Lo,  then  it  burst  upon  thee — Jealous  sway 
Had  robbed  thee,  cheated  thee ;  you  fell  apace 
Across  her  form,  kissing  cold  growing  face 
That  would  not  lighten  thoj  you  cry ;  did  plead — 
And  even  to  THE  CHRIST  did  intercede. 
And  so  unwept  by  others  she  lay  there 
Roses  and  Poppies  fading  in  her  hair, 
His  roses  fading  in  her  yellow  hair, 
You  only  mourner,  sobbing  in  despair. 
Night  grew  to  day — yet  never  answered  she — 
None  heeding  tho'  you  sobbed  piteously — 
Then  when  the  sun  grew  hot — men  at  the  stench 
Wrapped  up  their  face,  and  dug  a  narrow  trench 
Where  you  and  her  together  were  thrown  in — 
Soon  men  forgot  the  Dancer  and  her  Sin ! 

Silent  thou  art,  and  will  not  make  one  sign 
If  I  have  read  a  page  from  life  of  thine; 
Or  but  Romance  hath  mocked  my  foolish  brain. 

And  yet,  perchance,  that  thou  has  felt  some  pain 
To  see  The  Flesh  partake  of  things  most  fair; 
Lo,  thou  forbidden  and  must  never  dare 
Reveal  thyself — until  The  Coming  hour 
That,  ah,  full  soon  upon  the  world  will  lower, 
When  CHRIST  will  let  thee  break  the  awful  ban, 
Then  you  come  forth  and  show  yourself  to  man. 


36  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Whose  brain  conceived  Idolatry's  True  Self 
E'er  Priestcraft  made  it  thing  of  baser  pelf, 
So  trading  e'en  its  cult  and  rite  for  gain, 
Surely  its  Father  had  resplendent  brain, 
For  this  of  all  fell  wickedness  conceived 
Loved  by  The  Human  Race,  and  well  received, 
Had  more  enthrallment  for  the  human  mind 
Than  any  other  wickedness  can  find; 
So  subtle,  so  alluring  to  the  flesh, 
Like  a  garment  beautiful,  a  silken  mesh, 
When  one  at  first  it  tempted  to  array, 
But  quickly,  so  alert  to  seize  its  prey — 
To  magnetize — delighted  by  its  sway — 
Making  a  willing  captive  of  each  sense, 
Making  all  virtue  but  a  fool's  pretense, 
Making  the  captive  blind  to  everything 
But  just  the  passing  pleasure  it  will  bring 
Seducing  youth  with  pleasure  most  supreme 
An  Idealistic  Beauty  sweetest  dream, 
Drugging  the  senses  with  enticing  charm, 
So  that  in  vain  all  whisper  of  fell  harm 
From  house  of  Pleasure,  where  they  enter  in, 
Like  wine  at  first  and  then  the  dregs  of  sin. 
And  when  old  age — snag  tooth,  and  scanty  hair, 
Finds  that  no  longer  power  to  sin  is  there, 
Gloats  o'er  the  past,  accounting  every  measure 
As  one  may  over  some  all  peerless  treasure — 
Find  consolation  in  the  long  dead  Pleasure. 
It  is  at  first  a  silken  mesh  to  hold, 
With  years  it  covers  sweetness  fold  by  fold, 
Til  like  an  iron  cast  that  none  can  sever 


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It  holds  its  victim  ever  and  forever ; 

Unless  the  Gracious  Grace  of  CHRIST  shines  in 

And  frees  the  Captive  from  this  subtle  sin. 

— Men  laugh  and  say,  Idolatry  is  naught ! 
Yet  still  it  is  the  most  insidious  thought 
To  seize,  to  hold,  and  grapple  in  such  way 
As  makes  Humanity  delighted  prey, 
Loving  the  poison  that  corrodes  the  brain — 
Filling  with  deadly  virus  every  vein. 

Idolatry — promiscuous  Sin  of  Sex — 
Some  scholars  now  may  seek  in  vain  pretex 
To  make  it  nobler — but  such  nonsense  vain — • 
The  basic  Truth  will  ever  more  remain! 
Nor  surely  was  it  ever  thought  of  men 
To  link  Religion  with  an  act  of  Sin — 
To  make  the  act  of  Worship  nothing  less 
Than  Jewel  blazing  in  Lasciviousness — 
Surely  'twas  Lucifer  himself  that  brought 
To  shade  of  midnight  first  the  basest  thought 
That  ever  was  conceived  by  any  brain — 
None  darker,  fouler  one  can  come  again ! 

'Twas  first  revealed  on  Babylonish  plain — 
Drank  by  Humanity,  as  earth  drinks  rain ; 
A  seed  that  grew  luxuriant  in  a  night ; 
And  quickly  stepped  emblazoned  to  daylight 
A  Blessing  to  be  sought  for  and  a  Glory — 
And  this  indeed  Idolatry's  true  story. 

It  was  the  cult  of  all  the  Hamish  Race — • 
For  God  held  back  as  'tvvere  a  little  space 


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The  Japheth — Shemite  Peoples — to  give  place 
To  Hamites,  to  show  man  where  to  their  mind 
Would  lead  them  in  their  doing.    Not  confined 
By  any  power,  but  made  them  large  of  birth, 
And  let  them  rove  across  the  new  born  earth, 
Filling  the  seas  with  ships,  and  on  the  breeze 
Their  flag  was  floating  over  colonies 
Which  grew  renowned  for  learning  and  for  gain, 
Their  cities  waxed  and  flourished,  did  obtain 
The  Mastery  of  any  place  they  trod — 
Alas,  alas,  they  had  forgotten  GOD 
In  their  imagination  and  desire, 
'Til  Brute  Greed,  Lasciviousness  like  fire 
Shrivelled  all  thought  of  GOD  within  their  mind— 
And   Moloch's   Worship,   Basest  of  all  kind — 
Flaunting  to  Heaven  Defiance  and  Disdain! 
Their  days  of  Grace  were  many,  but  in  vain — 
So  when  God's  clock  of  Time  proclaimed  at  last 
Their  Hour  of  Grace  had  ended — and  had  past — 
Their  Knell  of  Doom  was  sounded  ever  more! 
Their  cities  blazed  and  crumbled  on  each  shore — 
Their  ships  were  scattered — and  their  Japheth  foes 
Waxed  bolder,  stronger — then  the  last  fell  close — 
Captives  and  slaves ;  and  servants  to  this  hour, 
The  Hamites  never  more  a  World  Great  Power. 
Alas,  the  Japheths  took  their  cult,  their  priests, 
Their  temple  harlotry,  their  naked  feasts, 
And  Persian,  Grecian,  Roman  bent  the  knee 
To  Nature  Worship's  base  Idolatry. 


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Now,  Japheth  rules  with  an  imperial  sway — 
But  Blood,  Crime,  Greed  have  hewn  the  fearful  way 
Which  led  to  Empire,  and  the  dripping  hand 
Is  blood  stained  with  the  life  of  all  the  land — 
And  even  Nations  hailing  CHRIST  as  King 
Have  made  the  Heathen  shriek  with  suffering — 
With  Drink  and  Opium — made  more  base  the  base 
'Til  Christians  are  a  curse  to  Heathen  Race! 
The  CHRIST  is  made  a  stench  by  so-called  friends — 
Who  hesitate  at  no  Crime  to  gain  ends ! 
But  CHRIST,  SABAOTH'S  LORD,  hath  surely  heard! 
So  surely,  Certainly  draws  near  the  Hour 
When  CHRIST  shall  shatter  their  Imperial  Power — 
Just  simply  by  the  sword  thrust  of  His  word. 
Then  shall  The  Shemite  come  unto  His  own 
And  every  Race  and  People,  every  zone, 
O'er  shadowed  by  the  splendor  of  CHRIST'S  Throne. 

Say  where  were  you  when  THE  LORD  CHRIST  was  born  ? 
E'er  the  night  shadows  flushed  by  early  morn 
Heard  you  of  sudden  (in  some  rocky  glen)  : 
"Peace  upon  Earth,  Good  Will  Toward  All  Men!" 
And  then  the  Glory  bursts  of  Carolling 
Of  Angels  who  announced  THE  LITTLE  KING! 
And  stole  you  there  with  Shepherds  on  their  way — 
Saw  in  the  manger  on  a  truss  of  hay 
The  Baby  helpless  in  its  infancy — 
And  then  you  saw,  what  Shepherds  could  not  see, 
That  stable  filled  with  Heaven's  Royalty. 
The  place  was  full  of  Angels — even  He, 
The  Highest  of  Archangels,  stood  and  smiled 
gaze  of  rapture,  on  the  helpless  child — 


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While  radiant  in  veiled  Splendor  o'er  the  bed 
The  Signa  of  His  Godhead  o'er  His  head. 
Ah,  surely  you  were  sore  astonished — 
The  Great  Archangels  standing  round  that  bed, 
The  Ministers  of  State — while  steadily 
The  Angels  came  all  joyfully  to  see, 
Rank  after  rank,  and  each  on  bended  knee. 
So  vast  the  multiude  it  seemed  to  thee 
As  Heaven  was  empty — Angels  from  each  star 
Had  come  in  haste  and  wonder — e'en  afar 
From  distances  uncountable — from  place 
Which  borders  on  the  nothingness  in  space 
All  unimagined  by  the  brain  of  man. 
The  Cherub  and  the  Seraph  led  that  van 
Of  myriad  Angels  that  here  came  and  went 
In  adoration  and  astonishment. 

And  where  was  Lucifer  that  fateful  night — 
No  hint  of  that  rare  glory  in  thy  sight, 
Was  he  at  Tiber  deep  in  Rome's  affairs — 
Was  he  at  Pergamos  all  hungry  for  men's  prayers — • 
Came  he  at  hurried  summons,  baffled,  dumb, 
Outside  that  Stable — where  he  dare  not  come — 
For  myriads  of  Great  Angels  barred  the  way, 
Holding  the  angry  Enemy  at  bay ; 
The  little  Town  of  Bethlehem  became 
CHRIST'S  place  of  Glory — Satan's  place  of  shame. 

Two  Hosts  encamped  where  David  once  kept  sheep, 
Earth  Dwellers  lay  in  Bethlehem  asleep, 
But  while  the  Human  calmly,  sweetly  slept, 


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Two  Hosts  keen  watching  in  the  valley  kept, 
Emblazoned  Hosts — such  majesty  and  might 
That  ne'er  before  had  flashed  to  angel  sight 
Covered  the  hills  and  hollows  of  the  place, 
Michael  and  Lucifer  stood  face  to  face — 
For  Lucifer  had  claimed  the  new  born  soul, 
All  Sons  of  Adam  under  his  control 
Why  not  this  one? 

But  he  had  not  the  power 
To  claim  as  his  THE  LITTLE  PRINCE  that  hour, 
And  backward  driven  with  all  his  yelling  Host — 
Michael,  Archangel,  victor  kept  the  Post. 

Humanity  that  night  had  slumber  sweet 
Nor  knew  that  morning  how  light  shodden  feet — 
Strange  Forms  and  Faces — crowded  every  street, 
Coming  and  going  a  vast  company, 
With  songs  of  praise  and  gracious  melody, 
Of  Glorious  Beings  with  Majestic  Mien 
Rulers  of  Principalities  I  ween 
More  vast  than  many  worlds — of  vestments  spun 
From  precious  stones  more  glorious  than  the  sun 
Had  ever  seen — one  may  conceive  in  vain 
The  simplest  Glory  of  each  ruler's  train. 
For  all  these  Beings  of  Great  Majesty 
Came  from  their  Principalities  to  see 
A  little  Baby — knowing  well  that  HE 
Conceived  the  Power  and  splendor  of  each  one — 
That  not  a  Glory  eye  may  look  upon 
But  this  same  Baby  fashioned  to  His  will, 
That  in  this  Sleeping  Baby  there  was  still 


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The  Power  whose  word  had  brought  to  life  all  things 
The  Principalities,  the  Worlds,  and  their  Kings. 

And  you  could  tell  me  of  His  boyish  days 
His  little  acts,  His  words,  His  simple  plays — 
Of  house  where  in  HE  dwelt  for  thirty  years — 
His  little  griefs,  His  sorrows — and  His  fears — 
What  HE  was  fond  of  eating — of  the  dress 
So  plain — and  was  it  patched  the  more  or  less — 
Of  how  HE  loved  the  birds — no  doubt  for  HIM 
They  always  perched  upon  the  lowest  limb 
Of  tree  and  shrub,  and  sang  their  sweetest  notes 
And  never  weary  were  the  flute  like  throats 
If  but  the  Little  Prince  would  stand  anigh. 
And  did  the  flowers  catch  ever  more  His  eye, 
Each  glad  if  HE  had  plucked  them  for  His  joy; 
For  surely  Nature  to  this  growing  Boy 
Revealed  her  secrets — and  the  flowers  in  grass 
Blushed  all  their  sweetness  as  they  saw  HIM  pass, 
And  every  blade  of  grass  prayed  for  His  tread. 
Red  daisies  and  blue  violets  bent  head 
So  glad  to  feel  the  presure  of  His  feet, 
All  glad  to  shed  their  perfume  richest  sweet. 
Loved  HE  the  buttercups — the  honeysuckle — rose — 
Searching  the  dells  for  cowslip's  soft  repose — 
Grasping  the  Lily — Royal,  red,  aflame — 
And  all  the  many  flowers  I  may  not  name. 

Did  HE  not  love  the  rivers  and  the  brooks, 
The  pretty  rivulets,  the  shaded  nooks 
Where  waters  murmured  softly  and  more  sweet 
Because  HE  cooled  in  them  His  dusty  feet. 


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Fed  HE  young  eyes  on  lake  of  Galilee  ? 
Which  oft  seemed  fair  as  woman's  face  may  be — 
And  then  of  sudden  all  its  sweetness  lost, 
Furious,  enraged,  and  billows  grandly  tossed — 
But  surely  most  HE  loved  its  holy  calm — 
Fringed  by  the  olive  and  the  stately  palm, 
The  little  cities  clustering  round  its  brim — 
With  gardens,  orchards,  and  with  grape  vines  trim — 
The  wild  flowers — and  the  pebbles  on  the  beach — 
The  colored  fishes  darting  out  of  reach — 
The  cool  air  scented  by  a  million  flowers — 
And  then  the  marvel  of  night's  earliest  hours 
When  all  the  stars  above  were  seen  below 
While  the  soft  waters  murmur  to  and  fro. 


And  the  Great  Sea — did  oft  His  footsteps  go 
To  mountain  slope  and  see  afar  below, 
The  Ribbon  of  blue  sea  on  Western  horizon, 
And  see  the  white  sails  glimmering  thereon 
Where  commerce  sent  her  navies  to  and  fro, 
To  Herculean  Pillars — to  e'en  land  of  snow, 
Where  Northern  Lights  their  colors  rare  displayed 
And  made  the  Southern  sailors  sore  afraid. 
Saw  HE  War  Galleys  with  their  bank  of  oars 
Bringing  their  warring  cargoes  to  the  shores 
Out  of  the  West — to  prey  upon  His  land. 
And  did  HE  ofttimes  walk  upon  the  sand 
Of  the  Great  Sea — and  watch  its  changing  mood 
Where   light   makes   laughter — and   where    storms   oft 
brood — 


44  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Sometimes  all  calm  and  peacful  as  if  good, 
Then  as  if  angry  great  waves  rolling  in 
With  rush  of  thunder,  dissonant,  and  din, 
As  tho'  to  swallow  up  the  sands  or  rocks — 
And  then  fall  back  as  weary  from  the  shocks — 
The  sea,  the  sands — the  creatures  of  the  beach — 
The  seaweed  ribbons  far  out  of  His  reach, 
The  shells,  the  little  fish :  how  vain  to  tell—- 
Of all — but  I  am  sure  HE  loved  them  well. 

For  HE  were  sure  a  poet  in  His  moods 
In  loving  waters,  birds,  and  flowers,  and  woods, 
The  sunshine  and  the  shadows,  pathways  dim 
With  over-hanging  branches,  rocks  all  grim 
From  earthquake,  scoured  by  sun  and  rain — 
The  Uplands  and  the  fields  of  growing  grain — 
The  Insects  and  the  Creatures  of  the  grass 
That  men,  all  heedless  of     strange  beauty,  pass — 
The  winds  ablowing — the  sweet  air  to  drink — 
Bareheaded — high  on  precipice's  brink. 
And,  ah,  HE  loved  the  mountains  and  their  cliffs, 
Their  jagged  edges,  and  their  faults  and  rifts — 
The  thickets  growing  on  their  steep  ascent, 
Their  Chaparral — the  cedars  that  were  bent 
From  seaward — and  the  giant  oaks  that  towered — 
Wild  shrubs  with  untrimmed  branches,  and  that  flowere 
With  aromatic  perfume;  dainty  ferns 
So  delicate  like  gossamer  silk  threads 
That  hasty  passer-by  scarce  sees,  discerns, 
But  trample  with  rough  feet  upon  their  heads. 
Strange  that  HE  made  them  all — yet  had  to  learn 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  45 

Anew — their  beauty  and  their  worth  discern! 
And  did  HE  ofttimes  look  and  stand  to  think 
As  if  on  sudden  revelations  brink! 
(Just  as  boy — a  youth — when  HE  was  growing) 
The  God-Head  in  abeyance,  and  not  knowing 
How  that  His  mind  conceived  each  solitary  thing 
And  HE  once  absolute — Creation's  King. 
Did  HE  with  this  fact  hidden  as  from  sight — 
Just  as  a  youth  would,  take  a  fond  delight 
In  peering  into  Nature  and  her  laws — 
Examining  the  structures,  wings  and  claws — 
Laughing  to  find  some  beauty  hid  before 
As  HE  had  ne'er  beheld  such  thing  in  yore — 
And  then  stop  suddenly — as  came  the  questioning  thought 
'Where  have  I  seen  before  how  such  things  wrought! 
In  Dreams?"  then  former  thought — grew  void  and  dim- 
As  if  again  the  God-Head  slept  in  HIM. 

And  His  Jerusalem — HE  loved  her  so ! 
As  Boy,  as  Youth,  as  Man  HE  loved  to  go 
With  springing  feet  up  to  each  Royal  Feast 
(Tho'  humbly  clad,  and  His  gold  of  the  least,) 
Her  dear  old  walls,  her  stately  Temple  Place, 
Her  many  homes,  her  streets  of  narrow  space, 
Her  circling  hills,  swift  rushing  Cedron  brook, 
Hewn  Chamber  in  Rock  depths,  with  many  a  nook 
A  Boy  will  find  with  wandering  restless  feet — 
The  searching  mood  makes  happiness  complete. 


46  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Did  HE  oft  watch  the  Altar  smoke  ascending 
From  Sacrificial  Lamb  that  rose  unending, 
A  thin,  soft  column  reaching  up  to  heaven, 
As  if  the  prayer  of  souls  that  would  be  shriven, 
A  Prayer — that  Human  sin  would  be  forgiven. 
Surely  HE  spent  HIM  many  peaceful  days 
In  Temple  porches,  in  its  broad,  bright  ways 
Of  marble  floors,  columns,  and  stately  arch ; 
And  saw  the  daily,  hourly  steady  march 
Of  Worshippers— watched  those  from  distant  lands 
With  happy  faces  and  gift  laden  hands 
Who  loved  to  join  the  chorus,  Praises  swell 
To  GREAT  JEHOVAH  HE  who  loved  to  dwell 
Inhabiting  The  Praise  of  Israel! 
Saw  HE  the  deeper  meaning  when  HE  stood 
Watching  the  Priest  slay  Lamb  and  sprinkled  blood 
Upon  the  horns  of  the  great  altar  place? 
Then  saw  the  hissing  flesh  consumed  by  fire — 
Surely  there  came  a  flush  upon  His  face, 
And  in  His  heart  a  kindling  of  desire 
When  HE  could  manhood's  Ministry  begin 
And  He  Slain  Lamb  Redeem  the  World  from  Sin ! 

Was  not  a  Cordon  drawn  around  the  Boy, 
And  Michael,  Captain,  surely  with  great  joy 
Watched  HIM  awake,  at  work,  in  slumber  deep, 
A  Constant  Guardian,  one  who  did  not  sleep, 
Nor  ever  slacken  in  his  power  to  keep 
Shielding  from  Harm — (not  from  temptation  power 
That  Cross  was  His  in  every  earthly  hour). 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  47 

Surely  the  Petty  Demons  stood  at  bay, 
To  Satan  was  the  battle  day  by  day, 
Or  to  his  Great  Chiefs — free  to  come  and  go, 
To  tempt,  and  do  their  best  to  work  HIM  woe. 
As  other  boys  were  tempted  so  was  HE 
Yet  stood  HE  in  this  Glorious  Purity 
Without  a  fleck  or  stain  of  any  sin — 
A  Holy  One  that  dwelt  with  sinful  men. 

Patience!     The  hardest  lesson  ever  learned  by  man, 
The  active  brain  will  ever  plot  and  plan 
And  fain  would  be  adoing — but  to  wait 
With  patience  for  the  opening  of  the  gate 
That  hath  no  latch  to  open  by  our  force — 
Simply  to  wait  and  let  time  take  its  course. 

In  this  the  sting — the  more  than  bitter  thought — 
Perchance,  it  was  our  work  the  hindrance  wrought 
That  now  oppose  and  fret  us  as  we  wait, 
Impatient,  kicking  at  The  Future's  gate. 
Ah,  if  we  knew  it  were  GOD'S  will — why  then 
We  could  be  patient,  braver,  better  men, 
When  HE  could  just  have  wished — and  lo,  'twere  done. 
Gentle  and  tender  with  a  woman's  way 
Of  soothing  souls  that  fretted  day  by  day, 
But  still  a  stalwart  manliness,  a  mien 
That  stamped  HIM  noble,  wholesome,  sweet  and  clean. 

HE  for  the  future  no  provision  made, 
Simply  contented  with  His  daily  trade, 
What  portion  GOD  sent  to  HIM  day  by  day, 
Be  it  the  less  or  more,  it  had  no  sway 


48  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

To  gladden  or  dishearten — as  it  came 
HE  took  with  praising  thankfulness  the  same; 
HE  never  quivered  at  THE  FATHER'S  rod — 
HE  simply  was  a  Pensioner  on  GOD  ! 

And  tho'  HE  ever  stood  for  Righteousness — ? 
He  did  not  stand  as  Patriot  to  redress 
The  Wrongs  laid  on  by  crafty  Ruler's  power — ; 
His  talk  was  neither  bitter,  fierce,  nor  sour — 
Never  His  voice  in  bandying  on  street — 
Nor  loitering  where  gossips  loved  to  meet. 
Home  Loving,  Mother's  Son,  sick  chamber  guest, 
His  presence  stood  for  comfort  and  for  rest 
To  tired  Humanity — and  here  the  power 
Of  Satan's  strong  temptation's  many  an  hour: — 
"Art  thou  THE  SON  OF  GOD — then  why  this  pain  ? 
Speak  but  the  word  and  sufferers  whole  again ! 
THOU  SON  OF  GOD — and  yet  let  sufferer  die! 
I  challenge  thee— Thy  God-head  I  deny !" 

And  unabashed  The  Tempter  there  could  stand — 
HE  knew  THIS  MAN  had  only  to  stretch  hand — 
Disease  had  vanished  if  He  did  command — 
Heal  sick,  raise  dead — but,  lo,  GOD'S  hour  not  come — 
THE  LOVING  ONE  stood  before  Satan  dumb, 
Tho'  was  it  not  indeed  most  hard  to  see 
The  suffering,  the  death,  the  dire  calamity, 
HE  could  assuage — but  GOD'S  law  higher  still 
Therefore  HE  schooled  HIMSELF  to  do  GOD'S  Will. 
If  we  the  wish  of  CHRIST  were  to  discern 
Then  Patience  not  a  lesson  hard  to  learn, 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  49 

'Tis  not  for  want  of  faith  in  CHRIST  we  fail, 
But  Doubt  stands  ready  ever  to  assail, 
And  say,  Not  CHRIST'S  will  thus  to  hinder  thee 
But  'tis  thy  sin,  thine  own  perversity, 
tThus  blocking  up  the  pathway  of  thy  feet 
So  that  thy  halting  steps  are  noways  fleet. 

What  thought  The  Mother  of  this  strange  born  Son 
When  youth  had  passed,  and  manhood  had  begun, 
Did  she  expect  HIM  to  claim  David's  throne, 
For  it  was  His — and  surely  His  alone. 
Did  she  watch  anxiously  the  dawning  day. 
Surely  that  morn  His  feet  would  speed  away 
To  far  Jerusalem  and  claim  The  Throne. 
But  as  the  day  sped — and  HE  worked  alone 
As  usual  in  shop  with  tools  and  boards 
Her  heart  smote  her — 'Twere  surely  not  The  Lord's 
Great  Angel  came  to  her — she  dreamed  it  all — 
The  wild  fear  fell  upon  her  heart,  a  pall 
Of  sudden  anguish — had  she  been  deceived — 
Was  it  at  hour  of  night  her  soul  received 
The  Dream — the  vision  of  that  Angel  Great, 
Who  filling  room  with  Glory,  did  relate 
Of  His  high  Destiny — was  all  of  it  a  dream — 
That  Angel  presence  just  a  passing  gleam 
Of  moonlight — all  delusion  of  the  brain — 
Not  one  on  Earth  from  whom  she  could  obtain 
A  Word  of  consolation  in  her  dread, 
Elizabeth  and  Zacharias  dead, 
And  their  son  John  in  wilderness  was  lost; 
Surely  the  Mother  mind  was  torn  and  tossed 


50  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Plaything  of  fear  and  hope — not  dare  she  say 
To  any  human  what  her  Hope  this  day. 

And  did  she  draw  HIM  to  a  secret  place, 
Put  hands  on  shoulders,  look  into  His  face, 
Crying:   "O  King,  where  is  thy  sword  to-day! 
The  Roman  Foes  like  snow  shalt  melt  away — 
Jerusalem  awaits  thy  Kingly  sway!" 
And  did  HE  of  her  thoughts  indeed  surmise 
By  sweet,  pure,  true  and  tender  loving  eyes, 
And  from  His  lips  the  tender  gentle  words: 
"God's  time,  my  Mother,  not  with  spears  and  swords !" 
She  could  not  question  further — but  she  crept 
Into  her  thoughts,  and  woman  like  she  wept. 

This  patient,  gentle,  solitary  man, 
Outside  of  God's  HE  had  no  plot,  nor  plan 
For  future  days.    HE  waited  for  that  call 
All  ready  for  the  hour  that  it  may  fall. 
In  this  from  human  beings  all  apart 
HE  could  not  tell  of  that  within  His  heart 
To  close  companion — nor  the  nearest  friend — 
Tho'  HE  in  gentleness  may  condescend 
To  be  a  helper,  counselor  to  aid, 
And  no  one  living  of  HIM  stood  afraid — 
HE  stood  a  marked  and  solitary  one 
That  oft  the  eye  of  envy  lighted  on: 
His  workshop  open  to  the  passing  street, 
The  Kindest  answer  when  the  neighbors  greet, 
Patient  in  toil  from  rise  to  set  of  sun — 
What  e'er  HE  wrought  at  surely  was  well  done. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  51 

Did  Satan  ever  hover  round  His  path — 

(By  Michael  kept  from  any  act  of  wrath) 

But  free  to  tempt  in  many  devious  ways 

Until  youth  past,  and  came  young  manhood's  days, 

Yet  perfect  still  in  deed,  in  word,  in  thought, 

Tho'  for  slight  flaw  the  subtle  Tempter  sought 

And  if  the  slightest— He  had  fled  to  God 

Complain,  demanding  a  chastising  rod ! 

But  Perfect,  like  a  jewel  without  flaw, 

His  every  hour  kept  sacred,  holy  law, 

Weaving  a  Righteousness  that  all  may  see — 

A  Lily  of  the  Valley's  Purity. 

And  heralded  by  John  HE  came,  THE  KING 

Who  would  to  Israel  Restoration  bring 

Had  they  accepted  HIM  in  faith,  in  truth, 

Messiah  without  Cavil  or  dispute, 

HE  would  have  put  forth  His  Imperial  Power 

And  Israel  triumphant  in  that  hour. 

But  HE  was  meek  and  lowly — and  they  saw 
Nothing  in  Him  but  breaker  of  their  law ; 
Blinded  by  cobwebs  of  rabbinic  lore 
What  was  there  in  HIM  that  they  could  adore — 
A  Carpenter  of   Nazareth  to  be 
The  Great  Messiah  of  all  Prophecy ! 
A  thought  Ridiculous,  If  David's  Son 
The  throne  of  David  never  could  be  won 
With  Galilean  Fishermen  for  peers — 
With  Galilean  hillsmen's  vaunt  and  cheers — 
Jerusalem  the  place  of  David's  throne 
The  Temple,  High  Priest  and  Sanhedrim  there, 


52  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Here  let  HIM  call  the  Nation  and  declare 
The  Roman  Power  forever  overthrown. 
No  doubt  your  Satan  whispered  to  their  thought — 
No  word,  nor  act  of  his  Salvation  wrought 
To  crush  cursed  Rome  and  end  our  suffering — 
Jerusalem  is  still  without  her  King! 

"If  HE  the  true  Messiah  let  HIM  show 
His  Kingly  strength  by  striking  Rome  a  blow 
To  shatter  Pilate's  power,  slay  Herod's  brood — 
But  HE  comes  not — but  ever  cries — 'Be  Good !' 
And  crieth  from  the  mountain  side :   'Be  meek/ 
Holy  and  lowly,  and  your  foeman  seek 
And  let  him  strike  you  on  the  face  again, 
And  thank  him  in  your  heart  for  giving  pain — 
Pay  tributes  unto  Caesar — and  divide 
Your  bread  and  meat  with  hungry — and  provide 
The  Beggar's  back  with  coat — nor  say  your  prayers 
In  public  places — but  in  room  up  stairs 
Where  no  man  seeth — give  no  open  alms 
Hiding  your  good  deeds  in  the  beggar's  palms; 
Prating  of  righteousness  in  heart  and  soul 
Not  let  the  human  passions  have  control. 
Has  HE  not  openly  before  all  men 
Said,  we  were  Hypocrites  and  full  of  sin 
As  tombs  are  full  of  bones — and  slurred  our  name- 
Til  we,  the  Leaders,  are  a  stench  and  shame — 
We,  Rulers  of  The  Nation,  thus  disgrace — 
Shall  we  to»  Minion  of  this  ilk  give  place 
Shall  we  confess  our  faults  to  such  as  HE! 
We  Israel's  Leaders,  Hierarchy — be  told 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  53 

We  are  foul  Livers — Greedy  of  the  gold 

That  is  our  right  to  take  of  in  exchange ; 

Did  HE  not  in  His  insolence  derange 

The  manner  of  our  selling  lawful  beasts 

To  far-off  Brethren  Coming  to  our  feasts. 

Does  HE  not  show  by  His  contemptuous  tone 

That  we  who  sit  in  Moses's  high  throne 

Not  honored  for  ourselves — but  for  the  words 

Read  from  The  Law  because  it  is  the  Lord's. 

Hath  HE  not  opened  floodgates  of  abuse, 

Not  veiled  in  Hyperbole  nor  framed  abstruse, 

But  by  plain  words  that  populace  may  know, 

Thus  striking  at  our  Person  such  a  blow 

As  the  receiver  should  wash  out  with  blood — 

For  all  His  allegations  understood — 

We  are  the  serpents !    We  the  viper  brood — 

Must  bear  the  lashings  of  His  angry  mood, 

Because  we  will  not  change  the  manner  of  our  lives. 

Now  it  is  either  We — or  He  survives ! 

For  He  hath  trailed  our  honor  in  the  dust, 

Hath  filled  the  people's  minds  with  a  mistrust 

Of  our  good  acts,  and  alms,  and  pious  prayers, 

Our  houses,  clothes  and  daily  table  fares, 

Be  knit  in  people's  minds  as  paid  by  gold 

That  we  have  stolen  by  actions  manifold — 

Therefore  dishonored  in  the  People's  sight. 

He  is  most  wary  in  each  public  speech 
None  can  confound  Him — none  can  over  reach — 
Mark  you  how  servile  to  Mosaic  law 
He  never  yet  has  hinted  of  a  flaw! 


54  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

But  to  Rabbinical  most  sacred  lore 
He  sneers  as  never  sneered  a  Jew  before ! 
Holds  such  as  worthless,  teach  men  to  resist 
But  on  the  Laws  in  Pentateuch  insist; 
HE  stands  all  hidebound  to  the  simplest  rite — 
All  perfect  to  His  Gallilean  sight — 
He  stands  a  menace  to  all  liberal  thought 
In  Grecian — Roman  learning  has  not  sought 
To  cull  a  single  Glory  from  their  mind! 
The  Narrowest  of  Jews — His  mind  confined 
To  "What  is  Written!"  and  all  else  despise 
As  Grecian  subtle  thoughts  no  more  than  lies ! 
Has  God  not  spoken  for  six  hundred  years, 
Surely  all  Grecian  Thoughts  not  writ  in  vain — 
Shall  we  but  deem  it  a  most  foolish  thing 
That  Aristotle  should  God's  message  bring, 
That  Socrates's  and  Plato's  brilliant  words 
Without  a  single  breathing  of  The  Lord's ; 
That  God  no  message  for  the  Human  Race ! 
To  liberal  Mind  unthinkable  disgrace — 
And  if  as  Jewish  Leaders  we  retain 
A  Leadership  of  Nations  we  must  let 
Our  minds  be  open — some  so-called  Truths  forget- 
But  this  New  Knowledge  we  shall  not  discuss 
We  Sadducees — you  Pharisees — may  fuss 
And  so  distract  our  force — now  all  stand 
Before  the  Greatest  Question  in  this  Land! 

What  shall  we  do  with  Christ! 

That  is  the  thing 
To  bring  us  peace,  or  bring  us  suffering ! 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  55 

And  HE  is  not  a  man  we  can  despise — 
For  some  of  us  have  seen  with  human  eyes 
That  Leper's  son  of  Bethany  decay — 
And  from  the  stench  our  nostrils  turned  away 
And,  lo,  today  within  the  Temple  place 
We've  seen  His  smiling — yet  accursed  face — 
And  all  men  see  that  Sinner  blind  from  birth ! 
Surely  of  other  cases  are  no  dearth — 
Facts — Facts — or  some  Egyptian  trick  and  fraud 
The  Rabble  all  believing  now  applaud. 
So  now  as  openly  to  common  eyes 
Not  mincing  words  He  hailed  us  to  despise 
With  open  insult — so  the  end  has  come 
Either  His  voice,  or  our  voice,  must  be  dumb ! 
If  David's  Son  for  us  He  hath  no  use, 
And  one  may  plainly  read  in  His  abuse 
'Tis  Death  for  us  should  He  come  to  the  throne ! 
And  should  He  dare  tomorrow  to  disown 
The  Roman  Power — the  eventide  would  see 
Our  bodies  slain  by  rabble  butchery. 
And  mark  you,  that  no  coward  lives  in  Him 
Stalwart  in  frame,  and  stately  in  each  limb — 
Our  spies  that  boasted  a  few  days  ago 
He  feared  our  wrath  and  fled  to  desert  place, 
Were  only  fools,  their  lying  wits  were  slow 
To  read  This  man — not  His  the  Coward  face ! 
Doth  He  not  daily  in  the  temple  teach 
As  free  as  He  were  leagues  beyond  our  reach — 
He  coward,  bah,  He'd  dare  us  even  here — 
Tho*  worse  in  hate  than  any  tiger's  lair. 


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His  heart  is  fixed  on  thorough  Righteousness ! 
And  a  year's  waiting  to  Him  more  or  less 
A  thing  not  countable  if  HE  but  wins 
The  common  people  from  their  common  sins — 
A  Race  of  John  Disciples  seems  His  aim — 
At  any  moment  may  the  people  turn 
And  with  repentant,  and  confessions  shame, 
Feel  in  their  hearts  His  Righteousness  to  burn — 
And  then  HE  may  step  forth  as  David's  son, 
For  by  such  Bigots  quickly  throne  is  won — 
Tis  our  life  or  'tis  His — who  casts  the  die — 
My  vote  is— That  The  Gallilean  Die!" 

What  of  that  night  when  Paschal  moon  shone  high 
In  its  full  roundness  to  the  spring  time  sky, 
And  in  shut  homes  the  Paschal  Supper  spread 
The  Roasted  Lamb — the  herbs — unleavened  bread? 

And  HE  who  was  The  Paschal  Lamb  indeed 
Hated  of  the  Religious,  and  by  Greed, 
Was  marked  for  slaughter  on  that  moonlit  night — 
Were  you  on  watch  with  ceaseless  peering  sight, 
And  as  you  saw  HIM  coming  down  the  height 
From  City  Gate — to  where  the  Cedron  brook 
Babbled  and  sobbed  o'er  rocks  and  shadowed  nook. 
His  feet  were  in  the  waters — and  they  laughed 
As  those  who  cup  of  pleasure  sweet  had  quaffed — 
Perchance,  they  dreamed  whereto  His  feet  were  bent, 
How  oft  their  coolness  to  His  feet  were  lent 
When  HE  went  to  the  Garden  that  was  nigh; 
But  surely  now  the  waters  did  not  know 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  57 

His  feet  were  set  upon  a  path  of  woe 

And  would  not  stop  'til  Calvary  was  won — 

A  Victim  on  the  Cross  in  blazing  Sun. 

That  hidden  now — with  laugh  they  laved  His  feet 
And  sang  out  to  the  grass,  and  flowers  sweet, 
That  HE  was  coming  for  His  wanton  rest 
So  let  them  give  of  fragrance  of  the  best — 
They  sang  out  to  the  trees — "Lo !   HE  is  near 
Now  give  THE  KING  the  best  of  calm  and  cheer — 
O  leaves,  that  droop  above  the  Royal  head 
Lull  ye  to  slumber — if  the  grass  His  Bed." 

With  His  Disciples  entered  in  the  shade — 
And  did  you  enter — or  were  you  afraid — 
And  from  dark  thicket  watched  HIM  as  HE  came ; 
Or  didst  thou  crouch  down  to  the  earth  in  shame 
To  spy  on  HIM — and  when  alone  HE  went 
Wert  thou  not  rilled  with  sore  astonishment 
To  see  this  Kingly  One  as  torn  and  rent, 
Shaken  in  dread  and  shivering  earthward  bent — 
Prone  on  the  earth — and  that  heart  breaking  moan — 
Speak  out,  and  say — was  HE  there  all  alone : 
Or  was  thy  Master  Satan  there  that  hour, 
With  all  his  matchless  and  tremendous  power, 
To  frighten  this  LONE  SUFFERER  and  spread 
Essence  of  Suffering  on  His  human  head — 
(Did  here  the  GOD-HEAD  somewhat  stand  apart — ) 
Alone  it  was  the  human  stricken  heart 
That  felt  the  Awful  Darkness  of  sin's  guilt — 
In  that  fell  Simoom  did  the  human  wilt 


58  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  stretched  there  with  His  face  to  the  grass  sod 
Cried  out  in  seeming  Hopelessness  for  GOD! 

And  if  the  Natures  Twain  that  ONE  CHRIST  mad( 
Together  stricken  in  that  midnight  shade 
How  hideous  must  be  sin  before  GOD'S  sight. 
Lo,  from  THE  CHRIST  upon  that  fatal  night 
Did  GOD  withdraw — and  left  HIM  suffer  there 
Like  a  lost  spirit  in  a  fell  despair 
That  none  of  earth  hath  power  to  comprehend. 

But  the  Fell  Suffering  at  last  had  end— 
And  surely  Michael's  Angels  filled  the  place 
And  Satan  in  his  failure  and  disgrace 
Driven  like  a  whipped  hound  from  the  path — 
Slinking  away  in  shivering  of  wrath 
To  where  The  Band  was  by  the  Traitor  led, 
To  pile  new  insults  on  THE  GOD-MAN'S  head — 

Didst  thou  not  shiver  when  the  kiss  was  given — 
Heard  then  the  clanging  of  the  gates  of  Heaven 
Shut  on  The  Traitor  ever  more — Then  driven 
By  his  despair — unto  the  dismal  place — 
Wert  thou  as  one  to  mock  him  to  his  face — 
Shrieking  thy  hideousness  into  his  ears 
And  when  the  eyes,  wherein  could  come  no  tears, 
Saw  a  low  branch  of  tree — Didst  thou  tempt  him 
To  swing  by  girdle  from  tree's  shuddering  limb 
That  would  not  bear  such  an  accursed  thing, 
But  all  night  sighed,  and  moaned  in  suffering, 
At  such  a  fatal  ignominious  disgrace — 
Shivering  to  see  distorted — swollen  face — 
And  didst  thou  shriek :— -"O  Traitor,  it  is  just !" 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  59 

Then  didst  them  shake  off  feet  accursed  dust, 
And  ran  to  see  where  to  THE  LAMB  was  led — 
To  where  old  Annas  raised  his  greedy  head, 
And  venom  hissed  at  HIM  who  was  so  bold 
As  to  curtail  the  flowing  in  of  Gold — 
Rejoiced  to  find  the  victim  to  his  view 
He  scarce  had  hoped  that  Judas  would  prove  true — 
Pious  Religious  Greed — with  whetted  teeth 
Would  fain  with  frenzy  in  this  victim  meet. 
And  Satan,  standing  by  His  side,  controlled 
The  Old  Man's  powers,  and  whispered  what  to  say. 
It  surely  was  a  terrible  array 
Of  Satan's  Minions — all  His  Great  Ones  there 
Marshalled  around  Him,  hatred  to  declare 
Against  THE  LAMB — who  seemed  to  stand  alone — 
But  upward  was  a  clear  path  to  The  Throne 
Of  THE  ETERNAL — and  JEHOVAH'S  eye 
Fixed  on  THE  WELL  BELOVED  SON — a  sigh 
Had  brought  ten  myriad  Angels  from  the  sky 
To  aid  THE  LAMB  had  HE  but  lifted  eye. 
But  now  alone — so  calm,  and  so  acute — 
Not  one  of  all  His  senses  now  was  mute 
HE  stood  alone  THE  SACRIFICIAL  LAMB 
Seen,  but  not  aided,  by  THE  GREAT  I  AM  ! 
And  where  wert  thou  within  that  Crowded  space — 
Perched  on  some  nook  whence  thou  could  watch  each 

face — 

Now  Annas,  and  now  Satan — then  awed  to  see 
How  THE  GREAT  CHRIST,  stood  their  contumely 


60  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

His  Silence  so  magnificent — when  rout, 
When  wrath  of  Hatefulness  filled  every  mouth; 
A  maelstrom  of  Iniquity  and  sin 
Trying  to  suck  that  silent  victim  in ! 

And  then  when  Annas  spittled  forth  greed's  spite 
Led  you  THE  VICTIM  to  Caiaphas's  sight, 
To  be  condemned  by  outrage  of  all  law — 
And  as  grim  cowardice  in  them  had  awe 
Of  Roman  Might,  did  then  Proud  Satan  lead 
The  Rabble  unto  Pilate  for  grim  deed 
Of  Crucifixion  as  more  meaner  death. 

But  here  a  grimmer  opposition  met — 
For  Pilate,  by  dark  hatred  here  not  swayed, 
Gave  a  grim  mocking  at  the  charges  laid 
On  this  young  Galilean,  who  had  mien 
More  Kingly  than  in  Caesar  ever  seen — 
Open  of  face,  great  eyes  all  sweet  and  clear — 
Lo,  Pilate  knew  A  Prince  of  men  stood  near — 
The  gentle  mouth  so  strong  in  hinting  power — 
The  open,  broad,  fair  brow  that  had  no  lower 
Of  evil  lurking  in  a  single  line — 
The  hair  unshorn — like  color  of  new  wine — 
Clustering  as  halo  round  about  His  face — 
The  unseamed  garment  falling  with  more  grace 
Than  any  purple  ever  Caesar  wore — 
He  ne'er  had  gazed  upon  such  One  before ! 
And  the  stern  Roman  felt  his  heart  grow  weak, 
His  stern  contempt  fell  from  his  eye  and  cheek, 
He  felt  as  He  the  Culprit  not  this  One 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  61 

On  whom  it  was  a  joy  to  look  upon — 
This  was  A  Prince  of  men — honest  and  true, 
And  strangely  at  his  heart  a  wonder  grew! 
And  Pilate  standing  for  The  State  had  freed 
Awed  by  The  Man,  did  even  intercede 
With  Piety  and  Greed — to  set  HIM  free. 
This  Roman  Governor  could  plainly  see 
That  envy  of  This  Being  was  the  Cause 
And  not  for  love  of  any  Roman  laws — 
And  He  who  was  all  brusque  to  sweep  aside 
Carrion  of  men,  careless  how  they  died, 
Halted,  perplexed — and  strangely  ill  at  ease. 

Wanting  to  free  HIM,  yet  Jew  Leaders  please, 
For  he  could  see  the  rabble  but  the  mouth 
Whereby  the  Leaders  shrieked  their  hatred  out. 
And  then  this  message  from  his  wife — his  mind 
In  crafty  flight  sought  to  and  fro  to  find 
An  outlet   feasible — some  two-faced  plan 
For  He  was  awed  before  This  Silent  Man! 
And  had  not  Satan  Self  been  there  to  guide — 
The  High  Priest  wrath — CHRIST  by  Him  ne'er  had  died ! 
Tho'  Satan  failed  with  Pilate — with  the  priests 
He  won  his  victory — made  them  howling  beasts 
Ravening  for  blood — Put  in  their  mouth  that  cry 
That  surely  enemies  would  not  let  die, 
"Thou  art  no  Friend  of  Caesar !"  struck  his  ears 
The  spirit  quailed — and  groped  in  coward  fears. 
For  tho'  Capraria  isle  was  far  away — 
The  Pearl  of  Islands  glorious  in  display — 
Blue  waters  and  blue  skies — and  sun  kissed  shore — 


62  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Where  Art  and  Nature  poured  a  priceless  store 

To  make  the  aged  Caesar  satisfied — 

Where  not  a  sense  of  Human  was  denied — 

Where  Vice  and  Beauty  laughed  and  danced  together 

O'er  marble  floors — amid  Spring's  gayest  weather — 

And  Caesar  envious  in  the  clutch  of  age 

Gloating  o'er  that  he  may  no  more  engage 

'Mid  that  Debauchery — had  open  ears 

For  that  word  "Treason." 

So  human  fears 

Swept  all  the  Spirit's  questioning  aside, 
The  cry  of  Treason  shattered  all  his  pride — 
How  God  and  Evil  fought  within  his  breast 
He  by  hand  washing  openly  confessed. 

Surely  'twas  Satan  that  inspired  that  Cry 
Shouted  on  Earth  but  registered  on  high — 
And  standing  yet  before  the  human  eye 
Tho*  weary,  weary  centuries  gone  by — 
Each  year  gives  answer  to  that  fell  desire 
By  hunger,  thirst,  by  rack,  by  spear  and  fire, 
By  dire  contumely,  by  hate  and  scorn, 
The  Fatal  Boon  they  cried  for  on  that  morn 
Hath  rested  of  the  Children  of  The  Men 
Who  in  desire  of  vengeance  fierce  to  win — 
Cried  out  to  Pilate — with  THAT  CHRIST  in  view: 

"His  Blood  be  on  us,  on  our  Children  too!" 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  63 

Then  when  the  Coward  Judge  gave  fell  command 
Didst  thou  unseen  mingle  with  soldier  band 
To  urge  them  spit  upon  that  silent  face — 
Or  didst  thou  not  shrink  back  a  little  space 
In  pity  of  this  SOLITARY  ONE 
On  whom  Satanic  hate  was  fixed  upon — 
For  surely  it  was  Satan  led  the  Route — 
And  tho'  unseen  struck  fiercely  at  the  mouth 
Of  HIM  who  treated  with  a  proud  disdain — 
Surely  around  THE  CHRIST  Satanic  train 
Pressed  close  to  show  the  hatred  of  the  heart — 
Tho'  Human  eyes  saw  not — and  nerved  each  hand 
Of  Human  being  who  around  HIM  stand 
To  do  HIM  vileness.    And  the  mockery 
Of  Crown,  and  Robe,  and  Sceptre,  Satan's  jest. 
And  he  and  his  great  Lords  in  maddening  quest 
For  outrage — surely  pained  thy  Soul  to  see! — 

And  when  THE  VICTIM  sent  to  Herod's  house 
Surely  Prince  Satan  led  that  loud  carouse, 
The  human  saw  not  on  that  early  morn 
The  Revelry  of  Hell — the  hate  and  scorn 
Displayed  by  Satan — but  the  Angels  saw 
From  Heaven  ramparts,  in  a  speechless  awe, 
Wassail  of  Hell  around  GOD'S  ONLY  SON  ! 
For  Demons  dreamed  they  had  most  surely  won 
A  victory — and  surely  did  let  loose 
A  flood  of  Insult,  and  of  foul  abuse, 
Astonishing  to  Angels — who  were  dumb 
Breathless  in  wonderment  what  next  to  come. 


64  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

The  human  eyes  that  through  house  lattice  peered 
Saw  but  the  rabble  as  they  slowly  neared — 
Then  passed  to  street  where  Herod's  Palace  stood — 
They  saw  the  humans  who  in  angry  flood 
Pressed  round  the  Galilean  with  wild  cries — 
'Twas  VICTIM,  street,  mad  Rabble,  to  their  eyes — 
But  Angels  saw  myriads  of  demons  there 
Polluting  all  the  sweet  fresh  morning  air 
With  their  lascivious  malice — saw  the  street 
Crowded  from  end  to  end  with  noiseless  feet 
Thick  as  dead  leaves  of  forest  in  the  fall — 
And  their  loud  shouting  like  to  tempest's  brawl 
Beat  to  the  skies  defiance  fierce  and  strong — - 
With  Satan  leading  Weary  CHRIST  along! 
This  was  Satanic  triumph  most  complete — 
A  Royal  Highway  surely  this  grim  street 
A  victor  with  a  Captive  at  his  heels — 
A  silent  Captive  who  makes  no  appeals 
For  help  to  THE  JEHOVAH  who  looks  on 
At  this  vile  Insult  to  His  ONLY  SON  ! 

Closed  are  thy  lips — nor  never  will  relate 
Of  that  weird  journey  to  the  outer  gate — 
Up  to  the  spot  which  like  a  skull  grinned  there — 
And  did  the  Demon  legions  still  rend  air 
With  taunts  and  insults  to  THE  SUFFERING  ONE, 
Who  with  the  weary,  tottering  feet  went  on 
Nor  rallied  back  at  His  enemies — not  made 
One  mention  of  the  insults  on  HIM  laid. 

Then  the  three  Crosses  standing  in  the  sun — 
Was  Satan  confident  of  victory  won — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  65 

Or  did  He  breathless  stand,  His  Great  Lords  nigh, 

To  see  if  GOD  would  let  The  Victim  die — 

For  was  it  not  a  mystery  to  him 

How  GOD  had  let  the  nails  pierce  every  limb — 

Where  would  the  rescue  be — and  when  the  hour 

This  patient  CHRIST  would  ask  JEHOVAH'S  power. 

Surely  his  Demons  circled  all  around, 

Thick  as  the  grass  that  held  that  hilly  mound, 

Fearing  each  moment  Michael's  trump  to  hear — 

It  was  a  time  of  gladness,  and  of  fear — 

As  one  who  stands  tiptoe  to  wait  event 

Each  passing  minute  joy  and  terror  lent, 

Aye,  every  sense  expectantly  was  bent, 

Like  lake — now  still — and  now  with  tempest  rent. 

And  what  your  thought  when  sudden  darkness  came — 
Did  you  hoarse  whisper — 'Tis  at  last  our  shame! 
But  as  the  Seconds  into  Minutes  grew 
And  such  to  Hours — the  closer  Demons  drew 
Around  that  Cross — atrembling  for  the  end — 
Waiting  what  Blight  JEHOVAH  yet  would  send — 
All  listening  for  the  quivering  of  air 
That  may  foretell  of  Michael's  hosts  anear — 
And  as  they  came  not,  Satan's  hopes  grew  high 
What,  would  JEHOVAH  let  THE  VICTIM  Die! 
Then  from  the  Darkness  rang  the  Dying  Cry — 
"Tis  FINISHED!" 

Satan  knew  that  CHRIST  was  dead ! 
But  e'er  a  shout  of  triumph  could  be  said 
There  swept  down  Heaven's  Armies  from  on  high, 


66  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  Demon  hosts  were  shattered  like  to  mist — 
Yea,  even  quicker  than  they  thought,  or  wist, 
All  beaten  back  from  where  the  crosses  stood — 
And  around  the  crosses  an  angelic  flood 
Of  Cherubim  and  Seraphim  and  those 
Who  in  GOD'S  Highest  service  face  GOD'S  foes. 

And  Satan  surely  then  discomforted — 
For  surely  all  of  his  vile  minions  fled 
Nor  dare  to  stand  in  all  that  heaven  lit  path — 
They  knew  not  when  may  burst  Angelic  wrath. 

So  all  day  long,  until  the  evening  came, 
That  mount  was  litten  by  angelic  flame, 
And  not  one  enemy  may  come  anigh 
As  Michael  watched  where  VICTIM  still  nailed  high. 

And  as  Earth's  loved  ones  mourning  of  their  loss 
Came  in  the  eve  and  took  HIM  from  the  Cross, 
Love  laid  HIM  in  the  sepulchre  of  stone. 
Surely  the  Human  never  was  alone 
But  Angels,  the  most  Excellent,  and  Great, 
Watched  o'er  that  Body  in  most  regal  state, 
The  Mightiest  of  Created  stood  around, 
Three  days  and  nights  it  was  most  Holy  Ground — • 
A  Bivouac  of  Angels  held  the  place — 
And  never  nigh  came  any  demon's  face 
Nor  none  to  do  HIM  ill  of  Human  race. 

Why  should  it  for  Humanity  alone 
That  Christ  in  Dying  only  should  atone — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  67 

Surely  His  Death  had  higher,  vaster  scope — 
Not  of  the  critic's  foolish  Larger  Hope  — 
For  when  The  Blood  of  Christ  men  will  despise 
They  then  are  reprobates  before  God's  eyes — 
They  who  despise  The  Blood  that  Christ  once  shed 
Have  condemnation  hanging  o'er  their  head — 
And  if  in  such  a  state  they  pass  away 
From  earth — for  them — come  no  repenting  day — 
No  other  chance,  no  hope,  No  saving  grace — 
But  ignomy,  and  terrors  and  Disgrace — 
There  is  no  Larger  Hope  in  the  Hereafter — 
Such  Hope  is  only  fit  for  demon's  laughter. 

But  may  I  think,  O  Demon,  to  thy  Race 
CHRIST  once  revealed  a  pardoning  free  grace, 
And  all  who  stood  repentant  HE  would  save — 
For  the  three  Days  His  Body  in  the  grave 
Did  HE  not  go  to  Hades  to  proclaim 
That  all  who  trusted  in  His  Blessed  name — 
That  every  Demon  who  would  turn  from  sin 
In  HIM  would  find  a  Saviour  even  then. 
And  Thou  most  certainly  must  have  been  there — 
In  that  vast  spacious  Chamber  of  Despair 
The  Conquering  CHRIST  came  with  Imperial  Grace 
And  all  the  Demons  saw  HIM  face  to  face. 
There  Lucifer  and  Princes  of  his  realm 
The  many  million  Sin  did  overwhelm 
In  far-off  ages — one  and  all  now  stood, 
As  CHRIST  proclaimed  Salvation  by  His  blood, 
Gave  Royal  Proclamation  of  Sweet  Peace 
Three  days,  three  nights  His  pleadings  did  not  cease— - 


68  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  truly  I  am  hopeful  some  Believed, 

And  truly  I  am  hopeful  some  Received 

Pardon  of  Sin — and  free  Salvation  felt  ; 

Shall  we  not  say,  that  millions  gladly  knelt 

Acknowledging  HIM  THEIR  SAVIOUR  and  their  Master ! 

How  Satan  must  have  fumed  at  such  disaster 

And  shrieked  disdain — and  made  the  lying  boast 

That  even  now  the  Christly  soul  was  lost — 

His  was  no  better  than  the  meanest  soul 

That  Death  and  Hades  held  in  their  control — 

And  in  the  Flesh  He  would  not  go  again — • 

That  He  too  victim  to  the  thrall  of  sin — 

His  birth  miraculous  a  silly  lie — • 

That  He  was  nothing  but  a  base  Deceiver — 

And  woe  to  him  who  would  be  a  Believer 

Hell  not  too  deep,  and  Heaven  not  too  high, 

But  Satan's  hand  would  find,  and  not  relent 

Til  on  that  soul  an  awful  punishment. 

Did  CHRIST'S  Words  make  you  quiver,  hesitate — 
Did  you  appalled  at  blackness  of  your  fate 
Listen,  and  felt  a  stirring  in  your  breast, 
A  longing  for  the  Blessing  and  the  Rest 
That  you  had  known  so  well  in  days  of  yore — 
And  did  there  come  a  wishing  to  deplore 
Your  former  sins — in  peace  with  GOD  once  more — 
And  had  you  put  out  foot  to  go  to  HIM — 
And  did  not  Satan  with  a  fury  grim 
Look  with  sharp  eyes  as  they  a  molten  crater 
And  sneering  said,  "You  surely  not  a  traitor!" 
"Pay  homage  to  a  Man — naught  else  is  He — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  69 

Whom  I  have  crucified  on  Calvary — 

Has  any  spirit  broke  this  prison  place — 

Hast  thou  on  Earth  found  man  of  any  Race 

Confined  here  once,  now  living  on  the  earth — 

From  out  yon  portal  never  second  birth. 

Were  he  GOD'S  SON  He  would  not  now  be  here, 

And  of  His  body  now  I  can  declare, 

The  Worms  are  eating  what  the  gases  rent, 

And  now  He  tells  the  lies  that  GOD  has  sent 

Him  as  Ambassador. — If  this  is  so 

Now  let  Him  come  in  Body  here  below 

In  flesh  and  Blood  and  then  we  will  receive — 

And  even  I — myself  on  Him  Believe. 

He  cannot,  nay,  He's  but  a  human  soul 

To  Hades  sent — and  under  Death's  control — 

And  now  He  seeks  to  wreck  this  realm  of  Ours, 

Would  fain  distract  and  rend  out  vital  Powers, 

Would  stop  our  growth — for  surely  'twas  my  sin 

That  brings  to  Hades  myriads  of  lost  men — 

We  waxeth  great — and  who  may  tell  the  hour 

We  shall  not  blossom  to  a  strength  and  Power 

To  scale  the  heights  of  Heaven  and  take  its  throne — 

And  Lucifer  be  King — and  King  alone — 

When  have  I  ever  failed  you  in  the  past — 

And  to  Eternity  my  rule  shall  Last!" 

Was  it  such  words  had  turned  thy  soul  away — 
Believing  Lucifer  you  still  would  stay 
Faithful  to  him  and  all  his  evil  Powers. 


70  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Then  was  there  not  an  ending  to  the  Hours 
That  Mercy  offered — CHRIST  no  more  would  plead — 
You  were  so  blinded  by  Satanic  screed — 
You  turned  away  your  face  and  hissed  your  hate, 
For  you  believed  the  Devil's  lie — and  deemed  the  fate 
That  followed  all  Humanity  the  same — 
And  CHRIST  as  far  as  Earth  concerned  but  a  name — 
HE  could  not  pass  the  portals  of  that  place. 

And  then  did  CHRIST  grow  silent  for  a  space 
And,  ah,  so  sorrowful  the  look  on  face 
As  if  His  heart  were  breaking  with  great  pain — 
And  once  more,  lo,  the  hands  outstretched  again 
As  HE  would  circle  and  would  take  all  in; 
And  cleanse  them  from  their  sorrow  and  their  sin, 
Then  did  HE  give  last  offer  of  His  Peace — 

Then  a  dead  stillness,  silence — pleadings  cease — 
The  Hour  had  passed — In  Hades  not  a  sound — 
HE  slowly,  very  slowly,  turned  around, 
As  if  HE  listened  eagerly  to  hear 
The  faintest  sound  of  pleading  to  His  ear — 
Then  suddenly  the  place  HE  stood  grew  dim — 
Then  lost  as  if  the  night  had  swallowed  HIM 
HE  went  with  the  Repentant  in  His  train — 
But  never  did,  nor  shall,  return  again. 

Say,  did  you  not  with  Satan  and  his  Host 
Feel  in  that  Hour  that  all  were  doubly  lost — 
And  Mercy's  door  was  closed  forever  tight — 
Nor  in  most  distant  ages  bless  their  sight. 
Resolved  that  Sin  no  bitterness  should  slake 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  71 

But  still  keep  sinning  for  the  sinning  sake; 
All  thought  of  a  repentance  cast  aside 
But  a  new  hate  against  THE  CRUCIFIED 
To  make  the  beings  for  whose  sake  HE  died 
Be  a  rebellious,   sinful,   wicked   race, 
And  to  His  name  and  honour  a  Disgrace; 
Make  of  His  heaven  a  very  empty  place, 
Make  of  Redemption  as  a  thing  but  dreamed — 
And  People  Hades  with  a  Race  Redeemed! 

Thus  flouting  THE  REDEEMER'S  Day  of  Grace 
Your  feet  still  set  to  shame  and  to  disgrace ! 

Lo,  then  the  glorious  Resurrection  Day 
When  Angels  shouting  rolled  the  stone  away, 
And  HE  came  forth  THE  GOD-MAN  in  His  prime, 
The  Conqueror  of  Death — And  all  the  Host  sublime, 
Prostrated  fell  before  the  nail-pierced  feet, 
Shouting  Glad  Praise  Magnificently  sweet! 

Ah,  thou  art  silent  of  that  bitter  morn 
When  all  Satanic  Powers  were  put  to  scorn, 
Satan  from  Hades  lowest  depth  retreat, 
Came  forth  acknowledging  his  fell  defeat — 
Surely  to  thine  and  thee  a  bitter  hour 
For  crushed  and  shattered  Evil's  brazen  Power — 
The  CHRIST  triumphant— and  THE  MAN,  THE  KING 
To  whom  Creation  must  allegiance  bring — 
THIS  MAN  alone  in  Heaven,  Earth  and  Hell 
Could  an  allegiance  from  All  Life  compel — 
THE  MAN  was  absolute — His  will  was  law — 
The  Highest  of  Archangels  bent  in  awe — 


72  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Executor  of  GODHEAD — HE  alone 

Stood  for  the  GODHEAD  on  Eternal  Throne — 

And  none  may  make  petition  but  to   HIM — 

THE  FATHER  and  THE  SPIRIT  would  not  hear 

Of  prayer,  or  cry  no  matter  who  came  near — 

Unless  addressed  through  CHRIST  all  prayers  were  vain 

Reply,  or  answer  no  one  would  obtain — 

GOD  had  provided  CHRIST  THE  LIVING  WAY — 

If  One  despises — GOD  has  naught  to  say — 

But  is  as  silent  as  a  tomb  may  be! 

This  His  Desire  throughout  Eternity 

THE  SON  shall  wear  The  Royal  Diadem, 

The  Universe  be  Ruled  by  Christly  rod 

ONLY  THROUGH  CHRIST  CAN  ANY  COME  TO  GOD. 

O  Glorious  Day  THAT  CHRIST  THE  SAVIOUR  came 
From  out  the  tomb  of  Infamy  and  shame, 
Bursting  the  bonds  of  Death  in  His  own  might 
Appareled  in  Glory — forth  to  Angel  sight 
Angelic  Hosts  who  hailed  HIM  as  GOD'S  Own 
Gathered  around  to  bear  HIM  to  GOD'S  Throne; 
HE — Essence  of  Divinity  in  Sooth — 
A  Grand  Refulgence  of  Immortal  Youth — 
The  Wondrous  God-Power  flashing  through  the  flesh — 
His  form  as  if  an  alabaster  mesh 
That  made  it  possible  for  eye  to  see 
The  Godhead  in  effulgent  Majesty! 

And  now  as  Conqueror  to  Heaven  ascends — 
Where  GOD  THE  FATHER  from  His  High  throne  bends 
With  open  arms  to  clasp  THE  ONLY  SON 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  73 

Who  in  OWN  Might  All  Victory  hath  won — 

Myriads  of  Angels  stand  on  either  side 

Shouting  Hosannahs  to  THE  CRUCIFIED. 

Up,  up  the  shining,  grand,  ethereal  way 

Surely  a  glittering,  brilliant  vast  array — 

Such  unconceivable  to  human  brain — 

THAT  CONQUERING  PRINCE  AND  His  IMPERIAL  train— 

With  Satan  conquered  as  a  prisoner  led, 

Surely  defeat's  grim  ashes  on  his  head — 

And  his  great  chiefs,  each  sullen,  hanging  face, 

Feeling  all  keenly  of  this  dire  disgrace, 

Bitter  in  soul,  but  borne  swift  along, 

Ashamed  to  look  upon  the  shouting  throng 

Of  those  who  were  companions  long  ago, 

Filled  to  o'erflowing  now  their  cup  of  woe 

THE  MAN  they  mocked,  and  scorned,  and  flouted  so, 

Now  held  their  fate  in  hollow  of  His  hand, 

For  now  obedient  to  His  great  Command 

They  came  as  Captives  with  unwilling  feet — 

To  show  the  Universe  their  fell  defeat — 

CHRIST  showed  all  openly,  and  made  Display 

Of  these  The  Rebels  who  on  long-past  day 

Flouted  His  Power,  and  His  Authority! 

And  now  the  Gathered  Armies  of  all  Life 

From  all  the  Worlds  that  hang  in  outstretched  space 

No  matter  how  far  distant  they  may  be 

Gathered  to  see  THE  VICTOR  of  the  Strife ! 

So  every  eye  saw  demon's  dire  disgrace ; 

And  so  with  bitterness  they  took  their  way 

As  outcast  Lepers  through  that  vast  array — 

Knowing  they  were  condemned  by  every  eye — 

Not  knowing  what  their  sentence  drawing  nigh — 


74  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

With  not  the  shadow  of  a  hope  to  cheer — 
Trembling,  abashed,  and  full  of  deadly  fear ! 

And  now  one  cry  from  all  that  vast  array — 
Ah,  none  such  like  it  in  Eternal  Day : — 

"Lift  up  your  Heads!    Be  Lifted  up  ye  Gates  I 
The  Lord  of  Glory  at  your  portal  waits — 
Swing  back,  ye  everlasting  Doors,  and  let  Him  in! 

Who  is  this  King  of  Glory  that  azvaits 
For  entrance  at  High  Heaven's  Kingly  Gates, 
What  is  His  Right  and  Title  to  come  in! 

'Tis  CHRIST  JEHOVAH,  Conqueror  of  Sin! 
Throw  wide  your  gates  and  let  The  Victor  in, 
THE  KING  OF  GLORY  with  the  strength  to  win! 
His  was  alone  the  Battle  and  the  Fight, 
His  Power  hath  shattered  Evil  and  its  might, 
The  Powers  of  Hell  are  shivering  in  His  sight! 
Lift  up  your  heads!  be  lifted  up,  ye  gates! 
Ye  everlasting  Doors,  swing  open  wide 
And  let  THE  KING  OF  GLORY  enter  in — 
Let  His  attendants,  like  an  ocean  wide, 
Bear  in  THE  KING  OF  GLORY  to  His  place — 
Bear'HiM  to  meet  JEHOVAH  face  to  face — 
THE  PRINCE  OF  LIFE  who  hath  the  Right  alone 
To  share  the  Honors  of  The  Eternal  throne — 
THE  GREAT  REDEEMER — CRUSHER  OF  ALL  SIN 
THE  KING  OF  GLORY — LET  HIM  ENTER  IN  !" 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  75 

Say  wert  thou  of  the  Captives  in  that  hour — 
Or  didst  in  Hades'  deepest  chamber  cower 
With  a  great  fear  in  every  centering  nerve? 
Asking  the  question,  "Will  THE  CHRIST  preserve 
Our  lives — or  falls  the  hour  of  awful  Doom 
And  we  confined  in  everlasting  gloom!" 
What  fierce  thought  racked  thee  as  thou  waited  there 
And  surely  'twas  a  lifting  of  Despair 
When  Satan  and  His  Chiefs  slunk  back  to  say — • 
"They  were  a  free  until  a  later  day." 
And  sin  again  bloomed  with  a  visage  strong 
Hate  and  defiance  in  that  stricken  throng. 

What  dost  thou  know  of  Mary  Magdalen  ? 
Thou  surely  hast  that  famous  woman  seen, 
For  sure  one  scarce  can  couple  with  her  name 
The  thought  of  any  harlotry  shame. 
For  surely  in  that  time  were  those  possessed 
Of  Demons — making  men's  heart's  a  foul  nest 
For  other  thoughts  besides  the  sexly  crime. 

Perchance,  tho'  seven  Demons  in  her  breast 
Such  passions  varied  that  gave  her  no  rest 
Like  Envy,  Hate  and  Malice,  which  her  soul  had  nursed 
Until  her  mind — desires  and  life  accursed. 
I  have  to  think  that  Mary  surely  pure 
Of  sexly  passion — in  that  way  demure — 
But  violent  otherwise  in  fits  of  spite. 
Suppose  that  Fancy  pictures  to  the  sight: — 


76  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

A  Mary  fair  who  was  an  only  child, 
On  whom  the  God  of  Fortune  truly  smiled, 
Born  as  it  were  upon  a  couch  of  gold 
A  Luxury — a  lavishment  too  bold 
For  sense  artistic — but  her  sire  did  make 
Love  for  display  and  ostentation  sake. 
Perchance,  by  usury  he  had  grown  rich 
With  vast  possession,  and  yet  still  the  itch 
Of  greedy  plunder  so  possessed  his  soul 
That  greed  had  won  an  absolute  control 
Of  heart,  and  brain,  and  every  thought  was  gain, 
No  matter  how  the  baseness  to  obtain, 
Lying  and  cheating  woman,  child,  and  man, 
And  woe,  to  them  who  would  obstruct  his  plan, 
Fierce,  ruthless,  nor  of  man  or  GOD  afraid, 
Unscrupulous  in  every  art  of  Trade. 
While  his  paid  servants  groveled  to  his  face 
They  felt  in  heart  such  service  a  disgrace, 
Behind  his  back  made  laughter  and  grimace. 
Suppose  the  Father,  usurious  old  Jew, 
Who  from  the  widow  and  the  orphan  drew 
Alike  from  rich,  from  poor  as  'twere  life's  blood — 
Hated  alike  by  Roman,  Jew  and  Greek, 
He' dared  not  of  his  Kindred  welcome  seek, 
Hated,  abhorred  by  every  Race  he  stood. 
E'en  Anna  who  an  evil  name  then  bore, 
Crafty  in  greed  in  adding  to  his  store, 
Refused  Her  Father's  gifts  at  temple  door. 

Perchance,  her  childhood,  girlhood  ne'er  felt 
Aught  but  of  pleasure  from  this  swollen  wealth, 
And  life  for  years  a  long,  sweet  holiday — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  77 

For  wealth  could  keep  the  stinging  truth  at  bay. 

With  womanhood  had  blossomed  higher  aim 

Then  heard  the  evil  of  her  father's  name 

She  stood  a  leper  to  Society — 

Outside  the  circle  where  she  longed  to  be — 

But  all  her  father's  wealth  could  force  no  way 

To  enter  in — all  held  her  pride  at  bay — 

Tho'  pearls  were  dropping  from  her  finger  tips 

Her  father's  name  her  beauty  did  eclipse 

And  turned  to  ashes  sweetness  at  her  lips. 

The  Jew,  the  Greek,  the  Roman  had  but  sneers—? 

Where  e'er  she  went  mortification's  tears 

Blurred  all  the  glorious  splendor  in  her  eyes, 

In  Court,  in  theatre  all  saw  her  to  despise. 

Perchance,  love  centered  on  some  noble  man — 

And  he  indeed  at  first  sight  glad  to  scan 

Her  face,  and  thought  it  beautiful  and  fair, 

The  splendor  of  her  eyes,  the  glory  of  her  hair, 

The  form  of  grace,  built  on  the  classic  Greek — 

But  when  he  came  her  name  and  race  to  seek 

He  found  she  surely  was  for  him  exempt — • 

Cast  her  aside  with  loathing  and  contempt — 

To  wed  such  one  a  dire  disgrace  and  shame 

By  giving  to  such  Dame  his  own  good  name. 

As  damaged  goods  thrown  back  on  Dry  Goods  shelf — 
A  thing  despised  she  shrank  into  herself — 
And  groping  in  thick  darkness  of  despair 
Surely  some  Demons  saw  a  prize  stood  there — 
They  vex  and  fretted  her  a  thousand  ways — 
And  as  the  insults  multiplied  with  days 
With  bitter  tongue  she  let  wild  temper  loose 


78  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Father  and  servants  shrank  from  her  abuse— 
Her  Jewish  faith  she  trampeled  on  in  spite — 
And  peering,  groping  into  Heathen  rite, 
Love  Philters,  Sorcery,  and  magic  spell, 
Into  the  Demon's  power  she  quickly  fell — 
They  entered  in  and  made  their  unclean  nest 
In  once  sweet  chambers  of  the  Woman's  breast. 

And,  Lo,  THE  CHRIST,  sweetly  compassionate, 
Heard  of  her  plight — and  pitying  such  fate — 
Set  out  with  willing  feet  to  free  her  soul 
And  Drive  the  Demons  from  their  fell  control; 
Perchance  she  heard  the  coming  of  His  feet 
And  Demons  urged  her  to  a  quick  retreat — 
Afraid  she  hid — deep  in  the  garden  glade — 
Nor  thought  that  HE  would  find  the  dark  trees'  shade, 
Cowering  like  wild  beast,  groveling  to  the  ground, 
And  when  she  heard  His  sandal  footstep  sound 
Rose  up  with  snarl,  as  tho'  a  wild  beast  fierce, 
But  when  His  eyes  her  spirit  seemed  to  pierce 
She  fell  all  helpless  back  again  afraid, 
Hope  in  her  heart  at  gracious  words  HE  said: 
"Come  out  of  Her!"  and  the  demons  crept 
Quickly  from  sight  of  HIM — 

And  Mary  wept. 

And  where  wert  thou  when  Constantine,  the  beast, 
With  bloody  jowls  came  to  the  Christian  Feast, 
Making  the  Church  of  CHRIST  a  den  of  thieves — 
Made  Devil's  Thorns  as  they  were  Christian  sheaves — - 
For  Policy  of  State  took  up  The  Crass. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT.  79 

And  many  millions   fearing  earthly  loss 

Flocked  to  the  Churches  when  their  hearts  were  yet 

On  every  filth  of  Heathendom  still  set. 

CHRIST'S  parable  about  the  mustard  tree — 

(Set  forth  before  the  world  that  all  may  see — ) 

Flourished  indeed,  a  vile  monstrosity, 

The  Mustard  shrub  became  an  Upas  tree, 

Where  the  foul  birds  of  prey  in  branches  made 

Their  nest  all  foul — and  so  THE  CHRIST  betrayed. 

Of  waiting  for  HER  LORD  The  Church  grew  tired — 

Her  love  grew  languid — and  her  wish  desired 

The  purple  and  the  gems,  silver  and  gold — 

The  Palaces  were  beautiful — the  fold 

No  longer  had  sweet  shelter  of  its  own — 

The  Cross  was  heavy — she  would  have  a  throne — 

And  so  she  grasped  at  Empire  and  Estate — 

Her  heart  was  tired  of  suffering. — Elate 

Was  she  of  grasping  Sceptered  Purple  Power 

So  she  forgot  HER  LORD  that  ghastly  hour. 

When  Constantine  took  name  of  CHRIST  on  lips 

The  Church  then  suffered  her  supreme  eclipse, 

With  purple  of  The  Caesar's  came  a  curse, 

Ambitious  men  who  craved  both  power  and  purse 

Entered  the  priesthood  emolument  to  take 

Heathens  at  heart  and  solely  for  the  sake 

Of  Earthly  gain — so  a  flood  let  loose 

Of  Simony,  and  plunder,  and  abuse, 

Of  all  things  Christly — the  ceremonies 

Of  Heathendom  did  so-called  Churches  seize 

And  made  them  Christian — Images  by  paints 

Lately  Greek  Gods  now  blossomed  into  saints — 


8o  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  a  black  Isis — she  of  Egypt  fame — 
Would  fain  forget  her  infamy  and  shame 
And  worshipped  was  by  some  sweet  Christian  name. 
The  Grecian-Roman  Gods — by  wholesale  brought — 
To  masquerade  their  virtues  in  new  thought ; 
And  Heathen  superstitions  crept  in  creeds 
So  men  were  lax  of  morals  in  their  deeds; 
A  Beast  was  baptized  Christian  but  was  still 
A  Heathen  in  his  heart,  and  wish,  and  will, 
The  simple  changing  of  the  name  was  all — 
Nor  never  will  The  Church  recover  from  that  fall. 
Lust,  Rapine,  Murder,  by  the  Church  was  blest, 
The  East's  pernicious  practices  spread  West, 
And  Christianity  decrepit  thing — 
(Instead  of  CHRIST)  with  Lucifer  for  King 
Past  through  the  middle  Ages ;  few  the  men 
Who  here  and  there  denounced  all  open  Sin, 
Making  more  hideous  wild  beasts  that  dwelt 
Within  Church  walls,  a  brothel  wherein  wealth 
Fed  Crime — flesh  putrid,  cursing  all  the  air — 
Where  Birds  of  Prey  their  stolen  plunder  share. 

The  Devil  paid  their  price  in  earthly  coin; 
The  Church  no  longer  watched,  with  girded  loin, 
The  waiting  for  THE  CHRIST  was  put  aside — 
No  longer  in  the  watch  tower  would  abide. 
Why  should  they  linger  through  long  hours  of  woe 
When  all  the  wide  World's  feast  was  spread  below — 
The  dainty  meats,  sweet  wines,  and  morsels  rare, 
Food  for  all  God-given  appetites  stood  there; 
The  purples,  and  the  laces,  and  rare  stones ; 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  81 

The  jest,  the  laugh,  the  dance,  the  music  tones — 

And  all  delights  for  which  the  senses  lust; 

While  in  the  Watch  tower  -sackcloth,  and  the  Crust, 

And  bitter  Persecution  near  at  hand, 

The  gibbet,  and  the  cross,  arena  sand 

With  Christians  huddling  from  the  wild  beast's  tooth; 

Surely  the  heart  and  spirit  were  not  mute, 

So  lack  of  waiting  Grace  cried  out  to  be 

Feasted  and  Honored — Guests  of  Royalty. 

And  Satan  taught  The  Church  to  become  wise, 
Began  THE  WORD  to  spiritualize — 
The  Great  Hope  of  The  Church  was  surely  vain — 
THE  CHRIST  would  ne'er  return  for  earthly  reign ! 
The  thought  abhorrent  that  THE  CHRIST  should  be 
Dwelling  amid  a  flesh  Humanity — 
The  Fathers  were  mistaken  in  their  claims, 
The  Teaching  of  The  Ancient  Word  but  aims 
To  give  a  spirit  picture  what  would  be 
When  world  was  won  to  Christianity — 
Gross  were  the  visions  of  an  earthly  reign 
THE  CHRIST  should  Rule  in  heart,  in  act,  in  brain, 
Rule  in  The  Church — All  ancient  prophecy 
Spoke  of  the  Church — of  Glories  yet  to  be. 
The  Jew  had  forfeited  forever  more 
His  land,  his  promises,  his  ancient  weal — 
THE  CHRIST  would  never  to  Jew  such  restore. 
Thus  did  the  Church  deliberately  steal 
The  Jewish  Blessings — said,  the  Time  had  come 
When  Christian  People  be  no  longer  dumb, 
But  dare  to  claim  for  CHRIST  what  was  His  own 


82  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

The  splendor  of  The  World— a  World  Wide  throne! 

Too  long  they  had  been  cheated  of  their  Right — 

Now  they  should  rise  up  in  the  Christly  might, 

For  surely  CHRIST  in  Constantine  had  spoken, 

The  Blazing  Cross  in  sky  the  Holy  token — 

That  over  all  The  World  the  Royal  Words : 

"The  Kingdoms  of  The  World  are  now  The  Lord's!" 

So  Lucifer  and  all  his  hosts  marched  in 
The  temples  of  the  Church,  to  rule  base  men, 
Who  cried :    "Behold  Millennium  Days  have  come !" 

So  the  true  followers  of  CHRIST  stood  dumb, 
True  Conquests  of  The  Church  were  brought  to  naught, 
CHRIST'S    Creeds    were    mingled    with    base    heathen 

thought, 

So  they  who  loved  THE  CHRIST  must  stand  aside 
Once  more  in  Wilderness  with  CHRIST  abide. 
Ah,  where  wert  thou  through  all  these  lurid  days? 
Surely  thine  heart  puccessful  in  such  ways 
As  led  the  Christian  heart  and  brain  astray, 
Whether  in  rabble,  or  in  princely  way, 
Thy  cunning  surely  equal  to  thy  task; 
Nor  did  you  aught  of  indolence  then  ask, 
Surely  stood  victor  in  each  enterprise, 
Perchance,  had  won  foul  splendor  in  the  eyes 
Of  Captain,  Prince,  and  even  Lucifer, 
Some  sterling  honor  did  on  thee  confer! 

But  Satan  raised  up  Teachers  that  in  sooth 
Mingle  Greek  Wisdom  with  the  Gospel  Truth 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  83 

When  Origen — and  such  false  Teachers  taught 

Wisdom  of  Hell  in  simple  Christian  thought — 

Then  spiritualizing  was  the  rage 

And  every  narrative  on  Bible  page 

Had  mystic  sense — as  nothing  truly  real, 

All  things  were  spiritual  and  Ideal, 

Til  simplest  message  in  GOD'S  Word  abstruse 

And  for  the  Common  People  little  use. 

And  quickly  spreading  from  such  damned  abuse 

The  Bible  Truth  contorted  as  each  man 

Conceived  that  what  ought  to  have  been  GOD'S  plan. 

Hope  of  the  Early  Church  was  soon  forgot 

Till  now  professing  church  will  have  it  not — 

Return  of  CHRIST!  they  scorn  it,  and  deride, 

And  in  Satanic  insolence  and  pride — 

Preach  a  Half  Gospel — give  no  hope  to  man 

That  CHRIST  is  pledged  to  vast  Redemptive  Plan, 

That  Human  Flesh  is  to  HIM  dear  as  soul, 

And  to  Redeem  Flesh  gave  His  life  as  toll, 

And  that  The  Earth  is  precious  to  His  sight, 

That  as  HE  has  Redeemed — so  shall  His  might 

Cleanse  Soul,  and  Flesh,  and  beautify  the  earth, 

To  be  a  place  of  Peace  and  joy  and  mirth. 

Oh,  why  will  ministers  then  close  their  eyes — 
Cannot  they  see  the  multitudes  despise 
Holding  their  saving  of  the  soul  a  thing 
Of  little  worth  besides  Life's  suffering — 
While  Precious  Truth  the  tale  of  Sin  Forgiven — 
And  sweet  to  dream  of  rapturous  far-off  Heaven. 


84  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Hunger  stands  gaunt  o'er  half  the  Human  Race 
Shaking  its  famine  fingers  in  their  face — 
Millions  not  knowing  where  tomorrow's  bread — 
Gaunt  childhood  on  gaunt  mothers'  breast  unfed — 
One-half  the  world  shivers  in  scanty  dress — 
Three-fourths  of  all  the  world  no  homes  possess — • 
Rent  payers — aye,  never  once  home  dwellers — 
In  Hovels,  Garrets  and  chill  damp  cellars — 
Live  hand  to  mouth — with  never  chance  to  save 
For  future  wants — nor  money  for  a  grave — 
A  round  of  weary  toil  for  bit  and  sup — 
To  aged  lips  held  misery's  full  cup — 
Like  beasts  of  Burden — narrow  is  their  scope 
Without  a  single,  solitary  hope 
Tomorrow  will  be  better  than  today — 
While  sin's  temptations  openly  display 
Some  antidote  to  drive  an  hour  or  two  away 
The  fretting  and  the  blackness  of  despair — 
The  coarser  pleasures — brothel  and  vile  drink — 
Strong  is  the  chain  and  sin  joins  link  to  link 
Until  the  battered  form  slips  over  brink 
To  that  fell  place  of  which  we  may  not  think ! 
No  use  to  blind  one's  eyes,  for  all  may  see 
O'er  all  Humanity  a  restless  sea 
Of  surging,  heaving,  tossing  misery — 
Pain  hath  electric  needles  and  she  stands 
With  shafts  of  torture  in  her  busy  hands 
Sending  her  biting  arrows  to  all  lands — 
Laughter  is  swift — but  grief  is  swifter  still — 
Smiles  sweet  and  soft — but  Tears  have  stronger  will — 
Ah,  scarce  a  merry  song  but  ends  with  wail — 
And  scarce  a  Right  but  Wrong  stands  to  prevail. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  85 

Base  Demon,  surely  but  thy  quest  shall  win — 
In  early  Christian  years  didst  thou  begin 
Thy  work  of  cunning  that  would  lead  to  this — • 
At  first  'twere  little  thing  to  be  amiss 
On  literal  meaning  on  the  Blessed  Page — • 
No  harm  thought  Leader  of  the  Church  to  read 
A  Spiritual  meaning  to  each  fact — 
A  Spiritual  lesson  from  each  deed — 
But  such  a  fatal  reasoning  did  detract 
From  simple  statements  all  their  force  and  power — 
And  then,  alas,  the  more  than  fatal  hour 
When  Church  robbed  Israel  of  her  GOD  given  Place — 
And  utterly  cast  out  the  Jews — as  Race 
From  thousand  Promises  in  ancient  book — 
Gave  Jew  the  curse — the  Church  the  Blessing  took. 
Jerusalem  on  the  Prophetic  Page 
The  Heavenly  City  of  the  Christian  age, 
And  every  little  church  a  Zion  stood, 
And  every  Jewish  blessing  understood 
A  boon  alone  in  spiritual  sense, 
The  Jew  was  robbed  by  Piety  intense 
By  earthly  Leaders — dare  Later  Christian  say 
Such  holy  minds  in  such  would  go  astray — 
So  centuries  of  usage  shaped  a  creed 
That  only  from  The  Devil  did  proceed — 
Such  crime  of  Early  Fathers  handed  down 
And  he  who  differed  was  a  knave  or  clown — 
Until  GOD'S  words  became  Kaleidoscope — 
(Destroying  once  for  all  the  Jewish  Hope) 


86  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

A  book  whose  statement  may  mean  anything 
Just  as  if  suited  Fancy's  soaring  wing — 
And  as  this  latitude  to  long  a  Rope 
Men  straightway  sanctified  and  made  a  Pope — 
So  o'er  men's  minds  appalling  darkness  curled 
And  the  dark  ages   fell  upon  the  world. 

Then  when  CHRIST  sent  The  Reformation  Day, 
And  with  Imperial  hand  had  swept  away 
The  Cobwebs  and  the  foul  dirt  on  His  Truth, 
The  stalwart  souls  no  longer  were  fear  mute, 
Spread  it  abroad  in  words  of  thunder  tone: 
"We're  justified  by  Faith  and  that  alone!" 
Alas,  except  in  dilatory  way 
The  ancient  Hope  of  CHRIST'S  Returning  Day 
Held  in  abeyance — and  a  dream  at  best — 
Soon  did  Church  Leaders  openly  protest 
At  such  delusion — making  it  a  jest. 
And  from  the  hardness  of  men's  hearts  there  spread 
A  pride  of  Intellect  by  Satan  bred 
In  holding  out  to  man  in  new  disguise 
By  knowledge  "ye  shall  be  as  God — all-wise !" 
So  "Verifying  Faculty"  arose 
And  like  a  snake  it  coiled  its  deadly  close 
Around  GOD'S  Truth,  and  by  its  deadly  slime 
Men  deemed  for  them  it  was  no  deadly  crime 
To  criticise — and  brand  GOD'S  Truth  as  lies! 

What,  call  me  Pessimist — Demon,  you  lie! 
I  stand  an  Optimist,  my  hope  as  high 
As  highest  heaven — I  stand  without  a  fear 
Within  my  soul,  the  song  of  Hope  rings  clear — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  87 

There  is  an  ending  to  your  Demon  Reign — 

Hear  you,  JEHOVAH  CHRIST  comes  back  again! 

I  put  no  trust  in  man  nor  his  desires, 

False  are  the  visions  to  which  he  aspires — 

I  count  the  work  of  man  as  little  worth — 

He  cannot  raise  the  world — nor  clean  the  earth 

Of  any  of  sins'  blighting  curses — he  is  weak 

As  water — what  the  blind,  false  Churches  seek 

In  elevating  of  the  Human  Race 

Will  end  in  failure,  and  in  sad  disgrace — 

For  only  Life  and  Hope  in  CHRIST  alone, 

Evil  by  His  hand  only  overthrown, 

No  other  help  we  want — we  want  no  other 

But  His — OUR  LORD,  OUR  MASTER,  ELDER  BROTHER, 

Who  can  redeem  our  spirit,  Body,  soul — 

Hold  all  of  evil  under  His  control, 

And  usher  in  the  grand  Redemptive  Day — 

When  Holiness  and  Peace  shall  Love  display! 

Base  Unclean  Spirit!     Surely  you  can  grin 
For  cheating  and  Defrauding  wretched  men — 
Your  sophistry  through  ages  has  fell  fruit, 
Now  the  Professing  Church  is  strangely  mute 
Of  that  One  Hope  of  Christian  in  Past  Ages 
Hope  of  Youth,  the  Stalwart  men,  and  Sages — 
When  the  Whole  Gospel  was  proclaimed  to  man 
Churches  believing  CHRIST'S  outspreading  Plan. 

CHRIST  shall  not  always  have  His  World  disgraced — 
The  superscription  of  His  Love  defaced, 
But  all  Humanity  shall  see  all  plain 


88  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

How  fair  the  World  was  once — and  zvill  again! 

For  HE  shall  take  her,  make  her  fair  to  see, 

A  Perfect  Pearl  of  Sparkling  Purity! 

A  world  indeed  without  a  single  flaw, 

With  Love  the  first,  and  Love  the  only  Law, 

A  Perfect  Home  of  Peace,  of  Joy,  of  .Light, 

With  Dwellers  stalwart,  brawny  to  the  sight, 

Sickness  unknown — and  Poverty  a  myth, 

All  Nations  in  sweet  fellowship  be  knit, 

Children  of  Canaan  white  as  any  others  — • 

Tho'  varied  Races  one  and  all  are  Brothers. 

An  act  of  crime  would  make  the  world  aghast, 

Days  of  Rebellion  to  the  CHRIST  are  past — 

Unknown  The  Brothel  and  its  fouling  sink, 

No  makers  nor  dispensers  of  vile  drink; 

The  theatres  are  purified  and  clean, 

The  mad,  lascivious  dance  is  never  seen — 

The  cheat-Usurers'  tables  are  o'erthrown — 

The  Wolves  of  Commerce  dead — such  Race  unknown — 

The  Spoilers  of  the  Poor,  who  made  more  dear 

The  Bread,  the  meat,  the  oil,  are  never  here — 

No  Labor  Unions  for  THE  LORD  CHRIST  stands 

With  Capital  and  Labor  in  His  hands, 

No  thought  of  unequality  may  lurk, 

Full  wages  paid  for  each  day's  honest  work, 

No  shirking  work — no  shirking  of  full  pay — > 

No  Trading  Combinations  to  betray 

The  Public,  nor  competitor — but  light 

On  every  action — free  and  above  board — 

No  piling  up  by  fraud  a  secret  horde — • 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  89 

A  blessed  Race — Spread  over  fruitful  lands 
O'ershadowed  by  the  Loving,  Pierced  hands. 

But  now  your  Devil's  cunning  is  so  base 
Deadliest  Incubus  on  Human  Race; 
Tho'  Satan  hides  from  men  his  potent  power 
Like  a  black  cloud  of  villainy  you  lower 
All  gruesome,  ghastly,  venomous,  unclean, 
Haters,  despisers  of  all  good,  obscene, 
Pressing  Humanity  to  depths  of  guilt 
Of  blood,  of  rapine,  plunder,  and  of  filth, 
'Til  one  is  all  appalled  to  think  of  it  — 
Surely  to  CHRIST  the  earth  must  seem  a  pit 
Of  Creatures  maimed,  and  crippled,  and  defaced, 
Of  Creatures  rotten,  foul  smelling,  and  disgraced, 
Of  creatures  lower  than  the  beasts,  debased 
In  mind,  in  heart,  in  body,  and  in  soul, 
Completely  under  Lucifer's  control. 

Wrecks  of  the  True  and  Beautiful  we  find 
On  Earth,  in  sea,  as  well  as  human  kind — 
The  broken  strata  of  the  rocks  declare 
Confusion  ghastly  scattered  everywhere  ; 
The  ever-restless  sea  in  storm  and  moans 
Tells  how  her  depths  disgraced  by  human  bones, 
The  millions  lie  uncofrined  in  waste  place, 
And  she  so  weary  of  the  dire  disgrace. 

Prince  Satan  surely  most  amused  when  those 
Who  should  have  been  his  most  determined  foes, 
The  so-called  Ministers  of  CHRIST,  denounce 
The  Fable  of  a  Devil — and  renounce 


90  'AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

The  passages  of  Creed  wherein  'tis  told 

The  Devil  a  Deceiver   from  of  old — 

That  they  who  hold  such  faith  lacked  common  sense — 

"No  Devil — sin  was  but  an  influence!" 

(Poor  fools  to  think  an  Influence  could  be 

Without  behind  it — Personality!) 

Christless  but  learned  men  can  spue  more  froth 

Of  foolishness  than  dreamed  by  Idiotic  thought — 

Their  hatred  of  GOD'S  Word  is  so  intense 

They  seem  to  lose  the  poise  of  Common  sense ; 

The  Wildest  of  Hypotheses  obtain, 

Like  as  a  snake,  a  lodgment  in  their  brain, 

They  twist  and  turn  the  plainest  words  and  make 

The  Words  of  GOD  the  hiss  words  of  The  Snake; 

So  reprobate  their  minds  they  cannot  see 

They  only  utter  Devil's  Blasphemy — 

They  question  every  thought  in  Written  Word — 

Nor  hesitate  to  say— "A  Forgery"— "Absurd"— 

And  the  most  daring  of  their  Hellish  School 

Intimate  plainly — Either  CHRIST  a  Fool 

Or  Ignoramus — For  He  made  His  claim 

Rest  on  the  Words  that  Moses  never  wrote! 

If  we  believe  the  nonsense  from  the  throat 

Of  these  Blasphemers  Glorying  in  their  Shame, 

And  with  the  lying  words  they  dare  to  speak 

They  turn  to  honest  People — and  have  cheek 

To  say,  since  they  believed  those  things  their  mind 

More  spiritual — and  they  most  truly  find 

More  blessing  from  The  Christ  than  eyer  before — • 

(An  ignorant  or  lying  CHRIST  they  now  adore) 

A  Spiritual  Alchemy  has  given 

From  Brew  of  Hell — a  nectar  labeled  Heaven. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  91 

For  brassy  cheek — for  towering  insolence — 
For  a  brow-beating,  shallow,  base  pretense — 
For  a  God-hating  fever  most  intense — 
For  daring  blasphemy  that  will  not  wince — 
For  fighting  CHRIST  behind  Religious  fence — 
For  idiotic  Blunders  wanting  sense — 
From  the  beginning  to  The  Age  far  hence 
Give  me  the  Higher  Critic  as  He  stands 
The  Foremost  liar  of  e'en  Heathen  lands! 
Well  may  the  Devil  laugh  that  He  is  dead, 
And  having  slain  as  'twere  the  fountain  head 
They  need  must  change  the  aw  fulness  of  Sin, 
Call  it  an  error,  or  a  fault  in  men, 
Break  its  bald  sternness  with  honeyed  phrase; 
Lo,  men  are  sensitive  in  these  last  days 
Of  having  sin  an  appellation  for  vile  deeds. 
So  the  "Dead  Devil's"  subtly  now  leads 
"In  error's  pathway" — and  "their  faults"  are  not 
Outraged  against  God — by  God  soon  forgot — 
If  sin  is  but  an  error,  and  a  fault, 
Wrongheadedness,  and  not  a  vile  assault 
On  God — the  vital  question  next  to  ask 
Was  CHRIST  shed  Blood  for  sin — a  foolish  task? 
The  scourging,  and  the  spittle,  and  crown  thorn, 
The  nailing  to  the  Cross,  the  pitiless  scorn 
Of  jeering  multitude — all  foolishness 
The  suffering  as  a  whole  mistake,  no  less! 

Cannot  they  see  Humanity  is  driven 

With  scorpion  whip  to  poverty  and  crime — 

That  Human  flesh  will  sigh  to  have  a  time 


92  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

When  it  shall  take  some  pleasure  and  delight — 
Not  given  to  terror,  wretchedness  and  blight — 
For  surely  flesh  may  show  its  strong  desire 
For  bread,  for  meat,  for  home,  and  winter  fire, 
Why  should  the  rich  have  double  Heaven — while  they 
Must  wait  On  Heaven,  and  that  so  far  away ! 

When  to  the  Ministers  such  wretches  come — 
Such  foolish  ministers  are  doubly  dumb 
They  whine  "Contentment,"  and  a  "God-given  place," 
"Tis  Will  of  God!"— 

The  Pity !  the  Disgrace ! 
That  such  men  called  The  Ministers  of  GOD  ! 
They  yet  shall  feel  His  sharp,  chastising  Rod — 
Surely  their  Blindness  is  without  excuse, 
GOD'S  vengeance  yet  shall  strike  for  their  abuse 
Of  His  plain  written  Words — when  they  Proclaim 
Only  one-third  salvation  in  His  name — 
Salvation  for  the  Earth !— f or  The  Whole  Man ! 
That,  That  alone,  The  Trinity's  Grand  Plan  !— 

Pulpits  in  HelFs  Philosophy  grown  wise 
The  solemn  words  of  CHRIST  they  now  despise: 

"A  Resurrection  of  The  Body!  Faugh! 
Twould  be  a  breaking  of  Eternal  law 
As  Dust  to  Dust — the  various  gases  rise 
Out  of  the  body  upwards  to  the  skies, 
Mixing  with  other  gases,  tempest  tossed, 
So  finally — eternally  thus  lost — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  93 

And  never  from  the  grave  will  come  again 

That  Body  marred  and  broken  down  in  sin. 

This  Human  flesh  is  nothing  but  a  load 

A  prison  house — the  spirit's  cursed  abode^— 

That  fetters,  bars  the  spirit  that  akin 

To  GOD  would  surely  highest  purpose  win: 

When  the  old  shell  is  cast  aside  to  rot, 

Whether  on  sea  or  land  it  matters  not, 

'Tis  but  at  best  a  hindrance,  a  bar, 

Without  it  we  could  rush  from  star  to  star, 

We  wish — and,  lo,  our  feet  outstrip  the  light 

No  space  be  hid — unconquered  in  our  flight — 

Lo,  what  keen  joy  to  be  a  Spirit  free 

Of  bonds  of  flesh  and  its  humility, 

Thus  would  we  be  as  Sons  of  God  indeed 

Nor  of  a  Fleshly  Tabernacle  need. 

The  Body  Resurrection  but  a  dream 

Of  earlier  Disciples,  who  did  scheme 

To  graft  the  Jewish  to  our  Christian  thought, 

But  in  this  age  we  no  wise  are  distraught 

To  take  as  literal  the  words  CHRIST  said. 

There  is  no  Resurrection  from  the  Dead! 

Science  hath  proven  such  to  be  the  case, 

On  scientific  Principles  we  base 

Our  creed  of  Common  sense,  and  boldly  say, 

For  flesh  there  is  no  Resurrection  Day." 

And  so  the  Pulpit  heeding  Satan's  hiss, 
This  Doctrine  coming  from  the  deep  abyss 
Is  held  by  ever  an  increasing  Band 
Of  Christian  Teachers  over  every  Land; 


94  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

'Tis  ever  more  the  everlasting  lie 
To  Eve  it  was,  ye  shall  not  surely  die, 
In  later  years  the  hiss  to  living  men — 
Your  body  dies  and  shall  not  come  again! 

Alas!  Alas!  that  Christians  such  receive, 
And  even  words  of  CHRIST  will  not  believe, 
To  HIM  the  Heavenly  Splendor  was  no  loss 
HE  gladly  came  and  died  upon  The  Cross 
Man's  Spirit  and  Man's  body  to  redeem, 
To  HIM  it  was  no  idle,  foolish  dream, 
That  sleeping  men  and  women  should  arise 
From  Grave,  and  walk  again  below  the  skies 
Upon  an  earth  Redeemed  and  Sanctified — 

To  this  the  Serpent's  Hiss  is}  that  Christ  Lied! 

So  what  say  ye,  O  Brothers,  as  ye  read 
Will  ye  to  Christ  or  Satan  give  good  heed? 

So  HE  creates  a  fly — and  gives  it  sense — 
Plants  in  the  Ant  a  rare  intelligence — 
To  such  Creator  say — Impossible! 
Out  on  you,  Satan,  get  you  to  your  Hell ! 

Surely  your  Prince  is  subtle  in  his  moves 
Blinding  Church  Leaders — which  indeed  but  proves 
If  men  will  not  believe  the  Written  Word 
They  will  believe  in  doctrines  most  absurd. 
Scarce  Fifty  Years  ago — Men's  Common  Sense 
Told  Satan  and  his  demons  to  get  hence, 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  95 

They  were  but  myths  and  lies  of  darkened  age, 
Such  bogies  foolish  in  The  Gospel's  Days, 
Dispelled  forever  by  the  Gospel  blaze. 

Thrice  Double  Fools — for  lo,  the  Gospel  Page 
Which  lay  before  them  could  not  speak  more  plain 
Of  Satan  and  his  Demons — literal — a  fact — 
The  evidences  in  The  Book  compact — 
And  yet  they  read  such  warnings  in  disdain! 

CHRIST  is  not  pleased  when  men  His  word  Despise — 
Perchance,  to  prove  such  men  were  nowise  wise 
Permitted  Satan,  whom  they  thought  a  fraud, 
(For  this  their  arrant  Unbelief  of  GOD) 
To  set  for  human  feet  a  deadly  snare — 
A  Spiritualism  blossomed  forth! 
'Til  men  became  enamored  and  the  sport 
Of  wicked  demons — who  spread  everywhere! 
Strange  hallucination  in  Church  Leaders'  brain 
Would  not  believe  such — "Such  mere  tricks  for  gain, 
A  cheating  a  Defrauding;"  closing  eyes  they  said. 
And  so  the  Devil's  teachings  spread,  and  spread, 
A  leprous  spot  enlarging  more  and  more 
'Til  many  millions  bitten  to  heart's  core! 
And  even  now  with  their  complacent  smile 
Are  ministers  who  sneer  at  demon's  guile, 
Calling  it  "nonsense!"  from  their  easy  chair, 
Reading  some  namby  pamby  pious  book, 
Or  novel  where  Purity  should  not  look. 
Not  all  the  ministers  like  this  in  sooth, 
But  thousands  of  them  that  believe  God's  truth 


96  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Are  silent  in  the  pulpit  and  the  press 
So  they  let  tens  of  thousands  in  distress 
Go  to  the  mediums,  knowing  not  'tis  crime 
Seeking  to  know  the  future's  hidden  time. 

And  so  the  Devil's  Frauds  are  spreading  wide — 
We  see  the  Quimby-Eddy  nonsense  in  full  tide 
Of  its  prosperity — poor  silly  fools 
All  so  delighted  to  be  Satan's  tools 
In  adding  to  their  numbers — so  inflict 
On  others  Doctrines  vain  to  contradict, 
Each  Eddy  Doctrine  contradicts  the  other. 
And  as  the  silly  Fools  can't  understand 
The  Hodgepodge  teaching — open  mouth,  they  stand, 
And  swallow  contradictions  at  wholesale! 
And  so  the  Fad  prevails  and  will  prevail ! 
As  long  as  Gullability  the  rule 
We'll  see  the  Foolish  flock  to  Eddy  School— 
And  Satan  blinds  them  with  a  cunning  trick: 
"Does  not  our  Mother  Mary  heal  the  sick — 
Are  not  there  miracles  within  our  midst?" 
Surely  'twere  hard  such  reasoning  to  resist — 
And  yet  how  simple  is  the  Devil's  trick 
So  many  Hypochondria,  e'en  sick 
By  imagination  and  by  Demon  thought! 
Surely  not  far  a  healing  to  be  sought, 
A  strong  will  power — and  miracle  is  wrought! 

The  Devil  tells  his  demons  step  aside 
Not  fret  the  "Scientist,"  let  them  abide 
In  peace  and  comfort,  they  are  his,  why  then 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  97 

Vex  them  with  any  care  or  thought  of  sin ! 
And  so  the  Scientists  have  pleasant  times 
No  Devil  fretting,  and  no  open  crimes — • 
Filled  with  a  vanity  and  vain  conceit 
Their  World  is  very  holy,  pure  and  sweet, 
The  fools  know  not  their  earthly  Paradise 
Is  shaped  and  fashioned  by  Satanic  lies, 
The  Devil  ne'er  will  trouble  his  own  sheep 
While  in  his  arms  they  gently  nod  and  sleep. 

Christians  in  Eddyism  see  GOD'S  plan 
For  she  is  but  an  instrument,  a  fan 
To  winnow  from  True  Churches  worthless  chaff, 
Truly  the  churches  now  can  give  the  laugh 
To  Satan  as  he  cleans  them  of  riff-raff. 
For  every  CHRIST  Believer  knows  full  well 
That  Eddyism  but  by-path  to  hell, 
And  those  who  so  depart  were  ne'er  Believers 
But  simply  were  Deceived  or  else  Deceivers. 

You  look  on  Eddyism  as  foolish  toy 
That  you  will  in  more  deep  designs  destroy — • 
These  little  mimics  that  come  on  the  stage 
Lead  up  to  swell  the  Demoniacal  age 
That  yet  shall  burst  upon  a  World  of  Sin, 
And  Satan's  Masterpiece  shall  surely  win 
The  Worship  of  Humanity,  and  all 
Not  written  in  the  Book  of  Life  shall  fall 
And  Worship  Satan's  Masterpiece — and  He 

Shall  worship  Satan. 

Alas !  on  this  Truth 

The  mass  of  Christianity  is  mute — 


98  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

They  dream  of  Triumph — they  to  be  the  factors — 

They  thrust  Christ  from  the  stage — they  are  the  actors. 

Their  vast  conventions  shout  and  roar,  and  roar — 

As  the  wild  breakers  dash  upon  the  shore, 

With  just  the  same  result,  and  nothing  more ; 

"The  World  for  Christ!  we  have  the  Gold,  the  men, 

Shoulder  to  shoulder,  Brothers,  we  shall  win — 

Move  upward,  onward  it  is  ours  to  win 

Strongholds  of  Satan,  Fortresses  of  sin, 

Commerce,  Civilisation,  Gospel — Three 

Such  combinations  like  a  trinity 

Shall  sweep  the  world  with  power  that  none  can  stay 

And  usher  in  The  Grand  Millennium  Day! 

So  words  of  CHRIST  and  the  Apostle  Paul, 
Were  vain  in  deed,  for  they  gave  no  such  call 
To  Christians,  nor  to  Churches — never  told 
Without  Return  of  Christ  came  age  of  Gold; 
In  their  words,  The  Renegeration  time — 
(Beyond  conception,  vastly  more  sublime 
Than  ever  yet  conceived  in  human  brain) 
All  hung  upon  the  Hour  CHRIST  came  again — 
No  victory  sweeping,  world  wide  in  its  course, 
In  the  Church  period,  Satan  still  had  force 
To  circumscribe  the  Gospel  in  that  space, 
The  Gospel  was  elective  in  its  Grace — 
To  all  the  free  Salvation — but  never  word 
That  without  Presence  of  The  Christ  our  Lord 
The  World  should  acknowledge  or  should  own 
That  He  was  Lord  and  Conqueror  alone. 
A  blinded,  foolish,  boasting  Church  that  ran 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  99 

In  her  own  Path — Heedless  of  CHRIST'S  own  plan! 

They  win  the  World  for  CHRIST!    Two  thousand  years 

Have  nearly  ended — and  we  know  with  tears 

We  must  confess  millions  of  Human  Race 

Have  never  heard  of  CHRIST'S  Great  Saving  Grace — • 

We've  played  at  missions  to  this  very  hour, 

And  where  the  Churches  now  should  be  a  power 

In  Foreign  field  only  a  handful  stands 

To  tell  of  CHRIST  to  Millions  in  far  lands: 

And  we  at  home  a  listening  to  paid  Choir, 

In  cushioned  pews,  proclaim  our  vast  desire 

Of  Giving  Gospel  to  the  human  race! 

And  then  we  frown,  and  even  make  grimace 

If  Minister  will  ask  for  Dollars  and  not  cents — > 

He  should  as  Dollars  take  our  good  intents — 

In  fact  the  Christian  gifts  in  world  to-day 

Not  equal  half-cent  each  for  Foreign  Field — • 

But  when  Convention,  then  we  shout  and  say: 

"See  by  our  Gifts  the  Powers  of  Satan  yield, 

Up,  up,  my  Brothers,  usher  in  the  Day 

When  Christ  by  Us  triumphant  in  the  Fray!" 

Ah,  how  you  chuckle  when  you  hear  us  shout, 
A  grin  contemptuous  around  your  mouth 
Which  plainly  says : — "//  Christ  must  wait  for  you, 
You  hypocritical  and  bragging  crew, 
Then  Satan  surely  has  Eternal  reign 
For  you  the  Mastery  will  ne'er  obtain!" 

How  oft  hast  Thou  Familiar  Spirit  been — 
Who  opened  gates  of  soul  to  let  thee  in — 


ioo  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Ah,  'twas  a  foul  companionship  I  ween, 

A  base  adultery  of  constant  sin; 

With  a  Familiar  Spirit  but  a  year 

Such  would  most  surely  leave  a  soul  all  blear 

With  all  life's  sweet  thoughts  scorched  as  if  by  fire, 

And  in  their  place  an  horrible  desire 

For  wicked  doings,  and  more  wicked  thought, 

Vile  transformation  be  most  surely  wrought. 

When  first  thou  enter  art  thou  not  most  kind — 
A  willing  servant  to  thy  victim's  mind — 
Waiting  his  wishes,  winning  his  esteem 
With  pleasant  hints  by  day,  at  night  by  dream, 
And  to  the  inner  Man  who  cannot  sleep, 
Into  the  inner  consciousness  you  creep 
Painting  upon  the  canvas  of  his  mind 
Pictures  lewd,  coarse — but  at  the  first  refined. 
Like  as  a  dog  obedient,  when  he  asks, 
With  soft  alacrity  performs  the  tasks 
As  if  it  were  a  task  of  Love  to  serve, 
And  thou  wouldst  never  from  his  wishes  swerve; 
But  with  the  days,  the  victim  feels  your  force, 
Slowly  but  certainly  his  whole  life's  course 
Is  shapen  to  thy  wishing,  to  thy  will, 
And  never  does  he  dream  of  it  until 
Some  rude  shock  of  misconduct  on  his  part 
Reveals  to  him  in  soul,  and  mind,  and  heart, 
Thou  art  the  Master  fierce,  alert  and  stern; 
Quickly  the  victim's  terror  will  discern 
He  is  the  servant,  dog  to  come  and  go, 
As  thou  desireth  be  it  fast  or  slow. 


AN  UNCLEA 


Lo,  his  desires  and  wishes  cast  aside! 
Once  like  a  boat  with  rudder  on  the  tide 
The  Human  steered  his  boat  and  had  control, 
But  now  another  Captain  o'er  his  soul, 
His  body  like  a  lost  boat  on  the  sea 
Mastless  and  sailless,  rudderless  to  be 
The  victim  of  the  moods  of  a  vast  sea, 
The  plaything  of  the  currents  fierce  and  strong 
Which  ruthlessly  would  bear  the  boat  along; 
When  currents  shifted  —  like  derelict 
On  whom  the  wind  and  water  wrath  inflict, 
And  in  a  little,  drift  on  jagged  rocks  —  ' 
Split,  rent  and  torn  —  water's  incessant  shocks  — 
Til  only  fragmentary  bits  remain 
Tossed  on  the  beach  or  buffeted  on  main. 

And  oft  the  hours  when  first  the  victim  feels 
The  clammy  creature  near,  still  nearer  steals, 
Appropriating  to  its  own  base  use 
High  Faculties  not  made  for  such  abuse; 
The  clammy  wretch,  as  serpent  round  it  prey, 
Closer  and  closer  presses  day  by  day, 
And  all  the  finer  fancies  making  void 
'Til  GOD  given  instincts  finally  destroyed. 
Softly  indeed  the  Incubus  first  creeps 
Until  at  last  it  lunges,  and  in  leaps 
That  never  power  of  man  can  hold  or  check, 
'Til  Victim  stands  at  last  a  total  wreck. 

No  matter  how  your  victim  had  first  stood 
Synonymous  for  virtue  and  for  good, 


iQ2  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

A  splendid  Form — an  interesting  face — 

A  spirit  noble — but  without  GOD'S  grace! 

But  when  your  deadly  virus  at  his  soul 

Slowly — then  swiftly  he  lost  all  control 

'Til  wrong  grew  right — and  GOD'S  right  always  wrong, 

Object  in  life — -"was  women,  wine  and  song!" 

Even  from  them  his  nature  swung  apace 

And  newer  crimes  more  deadly  took  their  place 

In  lower  pits  that  even  demons  feared, 

'Til  greedily,  his  nature  disappeared 

In  pits  of  slime — e'en  Demons  may  not  be 

So  foully  dark  in  their  Depravity. 


A  base  Familiar  spirit,  how  thy  spells 
On  e'en  the  noblest,  alas,  quickly  tells, 
Soon  vain  the  honesty  of  tongue  or  hand, 
And  Truth,  and  Worth,  and  all  that  may  command 
Encomium  from  Church,  Society  and  State, 
Once  coveted  possession;  but  of  late 
By  act,  by  word;  all  virtue  he  revokes 
Not  worth  the  pipe  of  hasheesh  that  he  smokes, 
Wife's  kisses,  children's  fingers  are  as  naught 
Except  as  stings  to  whip  his  jaded  thought, 
For  naught  is  home  and  all  its  God-given  faces, 
The  Halls  of  Justice,  and  the  churches'  places, 
The  Garden  flowers,  country  open  spaces, 
The  Incubus  in  soul  all  things  disgraces — • 
The  lowest  dens  of  infamy  and  shame — 
The  opium  curse — the  deeds  we  may  not  name. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  103 

And  if  a  Woman  victim  the  more  deep 
The  tears  that  angels,  with  faces  covered,  weep, 
For  she  the  apex  of  GOD'S  finest  thought 
Can  be  to  lower  strata  surely  brought 
Then  Demons  dreamed,  or  that  man  had  conceived, 
When  she  of  virtue  and  of  faith  bereaved 
Can  in  her  foulness  reach  a  place  more  low 
Than  Demons,  Man  or  even  Beast  may  go ; 
Foulness  of  men  is  ever  circumscribed; 
But  that  of  Woman  neither  bought  nor  bribed — 
One  woman  worse  than  are  a  hundred  men 
To  spread  contagion  and  the  blight  of  sin ; 
For  woman's  Beauty  is  a  deadly  snare, 
From  tip  of  toe  to  glorious  wealth  of  hair, 
From  tapering  arms,  to  circle  of  her  bust, 
Her  body  can  be  made  a  lure  for  lust — 
And  so  enticing  even  in  her  guile, 
And  evil  hidden  snake  like  in  her  smile, 
Her  kisses  put  a  madness  in  the  frame 
That  men  for  her  will  risk  both  name  and  fame. 
When  to  foul  evil  she  is  fully  bent 
To  be  the  Devil's  perfect  instrument 
To  tempt,  to  woo,  at  morning,  noon  and  night ; 
But  men  must  win  the  gold  to  win  her  sight, 
For  man  must  to  his  labor  and  the  strife, 
But  she  can  give  the  best  hours  of  her  life 
To  woo  her  victims — and  to  spread  disease — 
Her  preying  set  on  any  man  she  sees — 
And  she  can  blight  a  thousand  homes  in  years, 
Can  pile  up  wretchedness  of  cries  and  tears, 
Of  manhood  blighted — and  where  children  be 
Spread  a  disease  more  fell  than  leprosy. 


104  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  her  old  age — no  sewer  ever  ran 
Through  City  great  more  horrible  to  scan, 
Unclean  of  breath,  cheeks  blotched  with  pimples,  sore, 
Bloodshot,  bleared  eyed — but  why  say  any  more? 
A  few  grow  wealthy  from  the  whorish  gains 
With  spacious  houses,  rings,  and  golden  chains, 
White  linen,  purple,  light-imprisoned  stones — 
Covering  the  rottenness  of  flesh  and  bones! 
But,  ah,  the  many  blear-eyed,  hungry  hags 
Crouching  in  alleys,  doorways,  in  vile  rags, 
Their  every  sentence  coined  in  Satan's  mint — 
Frightening  the  men  who  came  with  vile  intent. 

Who  was  The  Prince  who  led  thee  to  betray 
Thy  GOD,  and  set  thy  feet  upon  a  way 
That  ever  leadeth  more  and  more  astray. 
Does  He  command  thee  still  in  all  thy  ways, 
Correct  thy  slackness,  and  thy  keenness  praise, 
Report  to  Lucifer  what  thou  art  worth 
In  doing  his  Grim  Pleasure  on  the  earth. 
Is  there  promotion  in  thy  various  ranks — 
Hast  thou  received  from  Lucifer  grim  thanks 
For  some  more  daring,  brilliant,  sinful  act, 
For  showing  subtle  and  insidious  tact 
Of  making  some  Great  Leader  bite  the  dust — 
Drawing  some  Christian  Leader  to  vile  lust. 
Or  is  thy  Prince  all  scant  in  word  of  Praise, 
And  doth  he  lash  thee  in  a  thousand  ways 
To  show  that  he  can  rule  thee  at  his  will — • 
As  thou  art  base  to  make  thee  baser  still ; 
Or  giving  thee  some  soul  that  is  so  low 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  105 

To  watch  and  tempt — that  thou  will  not  bestow 

Thy  wealth  of  talent  to  so  mean  an  end — 

And  in  contempt,  forsooth,  be  that  soul's  friend — • 

Relax  all  vigilance  and  let  him  be 

An  honest  soul  to  Christianity. 

Has  thy  Prince  Power  to  send  thee  to  and  fro, 

Dictate  the  person,  and  the  place  below, 

Where  thou  must  stay  until  that  person  dies — 

No  matter  be  he  master,  servant,  fool  or  wise — 

While  life  may  last  to  hold  him  in  thy  care 

By  night,  by  day,  go  with  him  everywhere, 

Closer  than  shadow  moving  in  his  pace 

To  woo  to  ruin,  misery,  disgrace! 

Or  does  he  leave  thee  sometimes  go  elsewhere 

For  days,  for  years  without  a  sense  of  care, 

And  keep  thy  charge  as  you  may  deem  the  best 

Thus  hours  of  vigilance  and  hours  of  rest. 

Does  Lucifer  his  Kingdoms  vast  divide 
In  various  Principalities  and  Powers — 
So  that  each  Potentate  shall  there  reside 
And  rule  all  absolute  as  he  thinks  best — 
Or  are  there  some  more  regal  than  the  rest 
And  have  a  group  of  Principalities — 
Are  they  for  life,  or  as  Proud  Satan  sees 
Fit  to  make  changes — the  most  daring  soul 
Given  o'er  the  rest  an  absolute  control 
To  order  various  principalities  at  will, 
For  years,  for  days,  or  just  for  certain  hours, 
To  carry  out  some  project  vast  and  grand 
As  'twere  with  irresistible  firm  hand 


io6  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

To  build  or  blast  the  interests  of  some  land. 

Are  there  some  Petty  Princedoms — some  all  great 

With  many  million  Servitors  to  wait 

At  Prince's  bidding — is  there  rivalry 

As  which  by  Conquest  shall  the  greatest  be — 

Is  there  a  sullen  Peace  between  them  all — 

Between  each  place  like  adamantine  wall 

A  bound  one  may  not  even  pass,  nor  dare 

In  any  way  another  Princedom  share. 

Are  there  not  petty  jealousness  and  spites — 
Are  there  not  even  battlings  and  fights — 
Envenomed  hates  that  make  close  neighbors  foes, 
And  taunts  and  bickering  that  only  close 
When  to  Great  Lucifer  appeals  are  made — 
That  for  a  space  make  each  of  each  afraid, 
And  discontent  lies  smoldering  in  wrath 
To  open  once  again  in  new  hewn  path. 
Or  is  there  never  discord,  each  intent 
To  be  your  prince's  perfect  instrument, 
And  filled  with  one  desire — THE  CHRIST  to  hate 
And  make  His  true  Church  waste  and  desolate. 

For  this  age  surely  is  your  holiday ! 
Begrudging  every  hour  which  pass  away — 
For  each  hour  flight  brings  nearer  that  dread  hour 
When  CHRIST  shall  come  in  vengeance  and  in  power- 
Drive  you  from  earth — and  in  The  Pit's  dark  place 
Prisoners  a  thousand  years — then  little  space 
When  ye  come  forth  to  wreck  the  Peace  of  men — 
But  short  indeed  that  time  of  daring  sin 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  107 

For  CHRIST  shall  drive  thee  to  the  Pit  once  more 
And  ne'er  again  shall  open  that  closed  door. 

So  this  your  time  for  revelry  and  joy, 
This  is  the  age  wherein  ye  can  employ 
Your  intellect,  your  forces,  and  your  might, 
To  put  on  CHRIST  the  insult  and  the  slight, 
The  venom  of  your  hate  to  slur  His  fame 
The  bringing  of  Dishonor  to  His  name, 
By  tempting  souls  with  gifts  of  Lucifer 
To  show  how  worthless  is  each  worshipper. 

The  Foolishness  of  Churches'  boast  you  know — - 
For  Lucifer  is  reigning  here  below. 
The  Wealth  of  all  the  Kingdom  in  his  hands, 
An  undisputed  Master  of  all  lands, 
The  pomps,  the  powers,  the  splendors  are  his  own, 
To  whom  he  wills  he  giveth  pomp  and  throne, 
The  strength  of  all  the  world  is  at  his  feet, 
Its  treasures  to  his  wasting  most  complete, 
The  intellect,  sweet  music,  and  gay  song, 
And  every  art  of  Beauty  doth  belong 
To  his  base  bidding — and  his  followers  share 
The  riches  of  his  Kingdoms  everywhere. 
This  age  is  his,  obedient  at  his  beck, 
To  make  a  nation,  or  a  nation  wreck, 
To  pour  his  wealth  of  glory  where  he  may 
To  make  men  mourn,  or  have  a  holiday, 
Making  Greed  Triumph  to  oppress  the  poor 
To  see  how  much  the  people  will  endure, 
Scanty  of  meat  and  bread  is  table  spread, 


io8  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Oft  house  no  better  than  a  cattle  shed, 
With  rags  and  patches  nakedness  to  cover, 
Want  and  despair  o'er  half  the  race  to  hover. 
Earth  ever  hath  great  riches  in  her  breast 
And  a  few  Devilish  Natures  steal  and  wrest 
The  things  made  for  humanity — to  self ; 
Defraud,  cheat,  lie,  e'en  murder  for  the  pelf; 
One  in  his  greed  can  dim  the  poor  man's  light — 
Others  can  make  the  money  market  tight — 
Others  will  juggle  with  the  price  of  grain — 
To  tax  the  poor  man's  bread  for  selfish  gain — 
But  it  were  long  to  tell  the  direful  tale 
How  these  trade  monsters  poor  men's  right  assail — 
They  grow  more  greedy — until  some  fine  day 
GOD  shall  come  forth  and  crush  such  noisome  clay, 
Their  riches  shall  vanish  in  a  night — 
They  are  a -hissing,  loathing  in  GOD'S  sight. 

But  you,  are  wiser  than  these  foolish  men, 
You  know  the  price  and  sorrow  of  your  sin — 
And  now  your  living  hatred  of  the  right 
Fills  you  with  venom  and  a  deadly  spite 
Against  Humanity — careless  of  the  lie 
So  you  can  have  men  GOD'S  Good  Words  deny. 
And  you  are  growing  bolder  in  your  speech, 
In  hints  and  innuendo  would  you  teach 
Man  to  despise  His  Maker  and  His  laws; 
And  crafty  are  you  to  give  great  applause 
In  Public  print  to  men  who  cast  away 
"Dead  Dogmas  of  the  Christian's  Yesterday!" 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  109 

Say,  are  you  ever  subject  to  disgrace — 
If  you  break  Satan's  Laws  is  there  a  place 
Where  as  a  prisoner  you  must  bide  his  time 
In  penance  for  committing  such  a  crime. 
Surely  Rebellious  curse  is  in  your  vein, 
You  once  rebelled — say,  do  you  such  again, 
Have  you  been  banished  to  the  Outer  space 
Where  GOD  seems  not — nor  the  infernal  place — 
For  some  rude  breaking  of  Satanic  rule. 
I  deem  you  are  a  rebel  that  no  school 
Of  Wisdom  well  may  curb — nor  intervene 
If  you  determined  to  give  vent  to  spleen, 
Or  being  balked  on  your  infernal  way 
Of  coveting  some  Soul  you  would  betray — 
Surely  no  fearing  sense  of  coming  wrath — 
Could  stop  your  swift  feet  on  the  lustful  path — 
What  was  desired  by  heart  you  dare  obtain 
Tho'  after  that  came  Banishment  and  pain. 

Since  thou  created  was  there  any  day 
You  did  your  Captain  or  your  Prince  betray 
By  doing  secretly  what  they  said  not — 
And  afterwards  detected — was  it  blot 
On  thine  escutcheon — was  there  a  disgrace, 
A  thrusting  as  it  were  to  menial  place — 
Or  did  they  show  their  scorn  and  contempt 
By  never  giving  heed  to  thy  attempt. 
And  yet  I  deem  their  rule  must  be  all  strict 
And  they  have  power  such  culprit  to  afflict, 
If  not  'twould  be  thrice  hell  between  ye  all 
And  Satan  shattered  Kingdom  surely  Fall. 


no  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Tho'  surely  oft  your  wills  must  cross  each  other, 
And  surely  ofttime  hate  ye  cannot  smother, 
A  bitterness  of  feeling  in  each  breast, 
Or  is  there  bar  of  Justice  where  confessed 
The  Cause  of  such  conflicting  sentence  given 
And  the  offender  into  exile  driven. 

Now  why  the  Cause  that  Thou  were  sent  to  me — 
Did  you  come  sullen  or  all  willingly — 
Was  I  thy  choice — or  were  you  told  to  go  « 

And  woo  and  win  me  to  eternal  woe — 
And  may  I  think  I  to  thy  care  consigned 
Without  a  single  wishing  of  thy  mind, 
Careless  what  charge  thy  captain  placed  on  thee — 
Or  may  I  guess  a  dire  contumely 
Was  put  upon  thee  by  so  base  a  one — 
Who  was  the  last  thy  hate  had  litten  on 
Some  one  more  great — and  is  it  thy  disgrace 
To  wait  on  me,  Derision  from  high  place 
To  show  contempt  and  make  thee  feel  the  sting 
Of  a  great  slight — and  so  give  suffering! 

Perchance,  in  former  years  that  thou  didst  do 
Some  paltry  thing  Thy  Captain  deemed  untrue, 
And  so  when  to  the  world  I  showed  my  face 
Thou  were  in  his  contempt,  and  in  disgrace, 
And  thus  to  punish  said:     "Behold  that  one, 
Go  tempt  Him — that  is  thy  Disgrace,  Begone!" 

And  so  surrounding  Demons  had  given  laugh 
That  you  such  cup  of  Wretchedness  should  quaff — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  ill 

And  with  a  bitterness  for  me  and  mine 
You  did  all  hopes  of  higher  place  resign; 
And  now  in  half  contempt  of  such  a  prize 
Art  but  half  hearted  in  thy  sneering  lies — 
"The  Man  not  worth  the  winning"  is  the  sneer 
You  give  when  some  companion  comes  anear — 
Or  "I  am  loafing,  for  so  poor  a  prey 
So  easy  I  can  tempt  him  and  betray — 
//  all  men  led  so  easily  astray 
The  Demons  would  have  always  holiday" 

Perchance,  thine  eyes  already  has  seen  one 
On  whom  thy  soul  is  surely  set  upon, 
Have  asked  Thy  Captain  that  such  prey  be  thine 
When  I  have  yielded  up  this  life  of  mine: 
Now  you  sit  there  and  speculate  when  I 
Shall  suddenly  or  slowly  drooping,  die, 
Now  wish  you  earnestly  to  be  set  free, 
And  ever  passing  day  begrudging  me 
'Til  thou  canst  haste  to  Captain  and  relate 
Life's  sins  I  have  committed  by  thy  hate. 

Say,  do  your  Princes  ever  change  your  charge 
To  narrow  sphere,  or  influence  enlarge, 
Take  you  from  humble  soul  to  one  more  great 
Whose  influence  more  felt  in  vast  estate: 
If  so,  since  I  committed  to  thy  hand 
Didst  thou  oft  plead  for  change  in  thy  command, 
Where  thy  great  cunning  could  have  vaster  scope, 
And  tho'  refused,  yet  still  a  lingering  hope 
Some  hour  your  Captain  with  forgiving  grace 


ii2  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Will  give  you  charge  of  soul  in  loftier  place — 
Some  one  more  worthy  of  thy  cunning  brain — 
And  thus  a  greater  glory  to  obtain. 

Say,  do  you  ever  make  your  charge  a  friend, 
Feel  some  of  sorrow  at  the  final  end, 
And  wish  for  longer  time  of  comradeship — 
Sorry  to  see  some  young  soul  as  'twere  slip 
Out  of  thy  guardian  hand  and  go  his  way 
Where  souls  departed  wait  the  reckoning  day. 

Say,  have  you  ever  with  compassion  great 
Pitied  some  youth  on  whom  you  were  to  wait — 
And  having  sorrow  in  your  heart  became 
A  Recreant  in  service,  risked  your  fame 
For  vigilance  and  Faithfulness — and  drew 
An  influence  around  such  as  you  knew 
Would  surely  lead  to  CHRIST — that  errring  soul, 
And  so  for  evil  out  of  your  control, 
And  safe  in  life,  and  surely  safe  when  Death 
In  gentleness  would  take  a  way's  life's  breath. 

Or  are  you  base,  remorseless,  like  flint  stone, 
Trying  to  make  the  Human  as  your  own 
Devilish  unheeding  of  another's  pain — 
With  every  sense  a-quivering  with  the  strain 
Of  hate  exceeding  any  human  thought — 
So  that  Destruction  may  be  fully  wrought 
Out  to  the  Devilishment  of  your  desire — 
An  ever-glowing,  all-consuming  fire? 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  113 

And  then  the  Human — who  can  tell  the  tale 
Of  sorrow  dire,  tear  crying,  and  the  wail 
Of  millions,  and  of  millions,  reeking  up 
The  incense  of  Despair  from  suffering's  cup — 
Dark  clouds  all  heavy  rolling  up  in  space 
To  where  The  Throne  Eternal  hath  its  place, 
And  there  before  THE  SITTER  on  the  throne 
Burst  round  His  feet  in  agonizing  tone : 
HE,  SABAOTHS'  LORD,  hath  heard  its  cries 
For  His  ears  are  not  heavy — and  His  eyes 
Nor  dull  with  slumber — nor  takes  HE  His  ease — 
In  music,  light,  and  splendor  self  to  please. 

Lo,  not  in  vain  the  smell  of  festering  sin — 
Lo,  not  in  vain  the  crying  of  poor  men — 
Lo,  not  in  vain  the  crying  of  crushed  earth — 
Lo,  not  in  vain  the  wrongs  of  beastly  birth — 
But  Patience — Sovereign  Patience  that  well  knows 
The  Seasons  and  The  Times  to  Crush  His  Foes — 
HE  never  sits  Indifferent  to  pain — 
HE  never  sits  Indifferent  to  sorrow — 
Now  is  the  testing  time  when  all  shall  gain 
Knowledge  for  full  enjoyment  of  Tomorrow! 

Tomorrow — yes,  Jehovah  has  Tomorrow 
When  HE  shall  banish  sin,  and  want,  and  sorrow, 
Patient  is  HE — tho'  men  and  Demons  scorn — 
Patient  we  should  be  for  the  Hours  now  brief — 
The  Word  proclaims  the  dawning  of  The  Morn 
JEHOVAH  sending  CHRIST  to  Earth's  Relief. 


ii4  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

See  how  you  cower,  shudder,  shrink  away, 
You  hate  with  a  fell  hate  that  glorious  Day 
Your  end  of  Sinning  for  The  Thousand  years ! 
Well  may  you  shrink  with  pain  too  deep  for  tears, 
Pent  up  in  Hades'  chambers  in  your  slime 
For  such  a  weary,  weary,  weary  time; 
An  awful  idleness — the  thought  a  shaft  of  pain 
Strikes  as  it  were  to  marrow  of  your  brain. 
A  busy,  bustling,  scheming  time  indeed 
When  you  may  strike  a  venomous,  harsh  deed, 
Is  something  to  distract  your  restless  mind, 
But  when  it  comes  that  you  will  be  confined 
To  chamber,  or  to  even  larger  space, 
When  circumscribed  to  any  idle  place, 
Your  every  sense  is  jarred  and  shaken  so 
You  spring  up  in  a  madness  and  would  go 
On,  On,  as  if  forever — anywhere — 
Through  dangers  full  of  pitfalls  and  of  snare — 
What  care  you  for  the  torture  in  your  path — 
Tho'  smitten,  stricken  by  eternal  wrath, 
Crushed,  broken,  maimed,  in  any  shape  or  form, 
Gladly  you'd  face  most  dire  and  pitiless  storm 
Just  to  be  doing  something — anything 
But  the  appalling  Idle  suffering! 

Ye  Demons  to  the  Scriptures  give  good  heed, 
All  constantly  ye  search,  and  peer,  and  read, 
The  various  signs  from  Prophecy  of  old, 
Prophets,  Apostles,  and  LORD  CHRIST  foretold 
The  crushing  of  your  kingdom — Then  The  Reign 
Of  CHRIST  whose  Kingdom  never  more  shall  wane. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  115 

And  not  alone  the  Scriptures  but  no  less 
You  watch  outpouring  of  the  Christian  Press, 
For  well  you  know  THE  SPIRIT  will  reveal 
To  Students  of  the  Scriptures — when  the  seal 
Of  silence  shall  be  broken  on  GOD'S  Page, 
The  Hour  revealed  when  the  Satanic  Rage 
Shall  burst  in  Fury  on  the  human  Race — 
The  Devil's  Carnival  when  in  short  space 
He'll  thrust  the  human  to  more  base  disgrace 
Than  any  other  epoch  of  the  Race! 

You  read  not  Blasphemies  yourselves  inspire, 
For  there  comes  ever  more  a  constant  fire 
Of  so-called  Christian  writings  that  are  worse 
Than  Heathen  foolish  writings — such  a  curse — 
Yet  so-called  Christians,  who  THE  CHRIST  profess, 
Give  millions  making  possible  a  Press 
Can  issue  such  a  ribaldry  of  words 
To  contradict  the  sayings  of  THE  LORD'S — 
Chicago  University  such  place 
Where  surely  Demons  have  made  dwelling  place, 
A  nest  of  Unclean  Spirits,  spitting  forth 
Through  learned  Professors  base  and  arrant  lies — 
Frothy  Professors  who  of  CHRIST  make  sport 
Rob  HIM  of  GODHEAD  and  His  claims  despise. 
One  man  alone  could  stay  this  Blasphemy, 
He  claims  a  humbler  Follower  of  CHRIST  to  be, 
Yet  He  pays  these  Professors  with  his  gold, 
Feeds  them,  and  clothes  them,  keeps  them  from  the  cold, 
Puts  them  at  ease  so  that  they  multiply 
Their  insults  to  the  CHRIST,  and  so  deny. 


n6  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Such  books  you  laugh  at  knowing  they  are  lies, 

Churches  revere  such — Demons  but  despise — 

Knowing  full  well  that  Scripture  still  stands  true ; 

Men  by  Earth's  Wisdom  never  Godhead  knew. 

And  then  you  greet  with  infinite  disdain 

The  silly  hodge-podge  of  the  books  that  gain 

A  popularity  from  Christian  Readers, 

Be  they  the  spawn  of  The  Church  or  Seceders, 

The  pious  nonsense  served  to  men  of  brain 

Of  fine-spun  theory,  vapid  or  o'er  drawn — 

Such  books  despised  by  men  of  brain  and  brawn ; 

(No  Christian  Doctrines  pointed,  sweet  and  clear,) 

Some  books  indeed  not  worthy  of  a  clown 

Like  crowd  of  birds  on  Christ's  souls  falling  down 

Fed  on  such  whey,  not  milk,  we  can  behold 

The  hearts  of  Christian  People  growing  cold 

To  Christly  things — while  irreligious  press 

Go  forward  in  the  Highways  of  Success. 

But  there  are  great  works  honest,  fearless,  true, 

Written  by  Ministers  and  men  in  Pew, 

That  give  forth  no  uncertain  sound — such  books 

That  like  to  flowing,  gushing  brooks 

Refresh  the  thirsty  tongues  of  men  who  strive 

To  keep  The  Truth  of  CHRIST  fresh  and  alive, 

An  active  living  principle  to  win 

For  CHRIST — the  famishing,  lost  souls  of  men. 

And  there  are  writers  who  forever  strive 

To  keep  The  One  Hope  of  the  Church  alive, 

The  Second  coming  of  Our  Lord,  The  Christ, 

And  these  the  books  all  eagerly  you  scan, 

Through  these  The  Spirit  will  reveal  to  man 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  117 

The  Hour  of  Hope — for  they  will  only  teach 
The  very  Truth — and  no  ways  try  to  reach 
The  minds  of  Men  by  one  uncertain  sound, 
By  Books  in  Bible  they  are  ever  bound — 
And  only  gleanings  from  the  Word  declare. 
Truly  among  them  are  some  learned  men 
Baptized  in  CHRIST'S  Truth,  brain,  and  heart,  and  pen, 
As  learned  in  knowledge  as  the  men  who  dare 
To  claim  High  Critics  only  knowledge  share. 
In  every  age  CHRIST  had  men  in  His  train 
Simple,  grand  souls  of  consecrated  brain — 
(The  Devil  had  more  brilliant  men)  while  they 
In  learning  never  made  such  vast  display 
CHRIST'S  Gospellers  were  ever  in  their  Day 
A  Fearless,  Faithful,  Splendid,  Grand  Array. 
But  not  alone  the  Learned — CHRIST  has  men 
All  eloquent  of  tongue,  and  bright  of  pen, 
From  Earth's  low  ranks  but  great  in  Heaven's  learning, 
With  strength,  with  power,  clear,  keen  The  Truth  dis- 
cerning. 

So  some  of  Jacob's  Race  to  GOD  are  won 
Cleansed  by  The  Blood  of  THE  ETERNAL  SON, 
Whose  lips  The  Spirit  must  have  touched  in  sooth 
They  draw  such  treasures  from  GOD'S  Holy  Truth — 
They  open  up  the  Scriptures  with  such  light 
Making  the  darker  passages  so  bright 
That  he  who  runs  may  read,  like  men  of  old, 
Who  to  Emmaus  walked — when  HE  had  told 
The  mystery  of  CHRIST  from  olden  story— - 
The  suffering  first,  and  then  The  Coming  Glory — 
Exclaimed:    "Did  not  our  hearts  within  us  burn — 


n8  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

He  opened  up  The  Scriptures  on  the  way!" 

So  even  now  we  feel  somewhat  as  they 

When  Christian  Jews  speak  of  THE  CHRIST'S  Return, 

Their  lips  seemed  touched  by  a  seraphic  fire 

Filling  the  soul  with  Glory  and  Desire — 

Before  THE  CHRIST  came  Satan  had  more  power — 
(When  sacrifice  for  Sin  complete — that  hour 
Was  the  knell  sounded  of  his  great  defeat, 
The  World  no  more  be  held  beneath  his  feet,) 
His  vast  Dominions  overshadowing  all, 
Except  the  few  Jews  answering  GOD'S  call, 
The  whole  wide  world  as  sleeping  in  his  hand, 
Almost  omnipotent  was  his  command. 
The  splendor  of  his  majesty's  mid-day — 
O'er  Earth  vast  continents  countless  millions  lay 
In  bondage  to  his  Demons  who  possessed 
The  mightiest  brains,  their  intellects,  the  best 
Of  Human  minds,  who  blossomed  with  great  thought. 
For  verily  Prince  Satan  had  not  wrought 
Alone  the  baser  evils — tho'  they  came 
Like  filthy  vermin  to  man's  Sin  and  shame 
From  his  high  daring  of  Almighty  Will. 
In  Sin  we  reckon  with  the  Human  still — 
For  man,  sin's  pupil,  made  more  like  to  God 
Not  always  in  the  footprints  of  The  Devil  trod, 
And  some  of  human  wickedness  on  earth 
Had  never  by  Satanic  wickedness  their  birth 
Of  all  the  created  beings — man  more  nigh 
To  GOD  than  any  on  Earth,  Hades  or  Sky. 
For  when  aroused  from  the  creative  sleep 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  119 

More  vast  in  its  conception  and  its  sweep, 

To  know  of  God  and  all  created  things 

This  mighty  power  was  latent  in  his  breast 

He  knew  not  of  it — knew  not  he  possessed 

A  kinship  nearer  God  than  seraphim, 

The  mightiest  of  Heaven  servants  unto  him. 

But  in  his  innocence  he  had  not  known 

His  near  of  kinship  to  Eternal  Throne. 

And  may  we  deem  in  number  that  not  years 

But  days  between  his  birth — and  falling  tears — 

The  Only  Son  of  God — his  teacher  kind 

The  Lord  of  Glory  tutoring  man's  mind, 

Not  even  to  Archangels  was  it  given 

To  teach  the  Best  Creation  of  High  Heaven ! 

Who  knows  what  secrets  then  to  man  revealed? 

Perchance,  was  shown  what  mighty  power  to  wield 

So  bringing  Earth,  and  Sky,  and  Sea  to  be 

The  instruments  to  aid  vast  majesty. 

Alas,  such  schooling  soon  had  abrupt  end — 

When  Eve  alone  did  to  the  serpent  bend 

When  woman  fell — then  came  man's  testing  time — 

So  that  as  child,  and  not  full  manhood's  prime — 

He  dared  commit  that  flaring,  brazen  crime 

Of  following  a  woman — the  disgrace 

Entail'd  from  Him  to  all  the  Human  Race. 

So  after  that  most  fatal,  foolish  fall, 

A  victim  to  the  demons  beck  and  call, 

Sin's  virus  clouded  all  the  brilliant  brain, 

The  Evil,  Good  corroding,  did  obtain 

The  mastering  of  good — confused  the  good 

So  that  man's  soul  no  longer  understood 


120  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

What  he  had  lost — in  glory  and  in  power. 
His  wrecked  intelligence  even  to  this  hour 
Cannot  conceive  the  High  Estate  he  lost, 
That  now  he  sinneth  at  tremendous  cost 
Of  Power— that's  closer  to  The  Infinite 
Than  he  imagines — once  his  gracious  right. 

Tho'  Satan  has  made  man  his  counterpart 
Befouled  the  intellect,  the  soul,  the  heart 
With  enmity  to  God — he  fears  man  still. 
He  knows  since  CHRIST  from  Death  arose,  man's  will 
Can  be  a  deadly  weapon  to  resist 
Satanic  power — lo,  if  the  soul  blood  washed 
Then  Satan  at  the  bloodstain  stands  abashed, 
Well  knowing  that  The  New  Birth  within  Man 
With  leaps  and  bounds  can  grow  until  it  can — 
Guided  by  Faith  and  Grace — a  foeman  be 
Unconquerable,  grand  adversary. 
Yet  even  then  the  fallen  nature  stings 
The  new-born  one,  so  that  with  baffled  wings 
It  cannot  fly  to  altitudes  which  men 
Shall  live  in — when  drops  off  the  curse  of  Sin 
And  as  untrammeled  Being — free  from  stain 
Stand  as  his  Right — the  nearest  to  GOD'S  Reign. 
And  thus  His  intellect — intelligence — 
The  God-Gift  blessing,  and  JEHOVAH'S  sense, 
Shall  blossom  to  perfection  in  full  flower — 
Perchance,  may  have  even  creative  power 
To  fashion  things  of  Earth — of  low  estate — 
But  this  we  know  not,  best  not  speculate. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  121 

But  this  to  us  is  more  than  a  surmise 
That  sometimes  fallen  man  oft'  brings  surprise 
Even  to  Satan's  vast  intelligence; 
He  surely  oftentime  must  pondering  wince 
If  this  his  pupil  have  not  vaster  brain 
The  end  of  man's  ambition  to  obtain. 

We  deem  that  Satan  is  more  vastly  wise 
That  seen  by  even  ministers — when  they  surmise 
That  all  of  the  catastrophies  of  earth 
In  Satan's  wily  brain  had  found  their  birth. 
Some  to  be  sure — but  surely  common  sense 
Rules  Satan's  measure — He  does  not  dispense 
Curses,  not  set  his  agents  to  destroy 
His  Kingdom — that  the  antics  of  fool  boy: 
Nay,  but  his  great  desire  to  see  his  Earth 
Lulled  in  his  arms  by  melody  and  mirth — 
His  one  desire  to  make  Humanity 
As  happy  as  their  sins  can  make  them  be ! 

Originally  the  Earth  to  Satan  given 
But  when  He  sinned — was  from  his  Kingdom  driven — 
Its  glory  shattered,  and  its  form  destroyed, 
Then  to  the  desolate  "without  form  and  void." 
CHRIST  came  and  made  for  man  a  gracious  place 
But  when  man  sinned — and  cast  out  in  disgrace 
Satan  again  was  master  of  the  World ! 
A  snake  most  venomous  in  man's  mind  curled 
And  mixed  the  good  with  evil  in  man's  brain 
So  man  in  blindness  wants  not  GOD  to  reign. 


122  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

All  surely  as  a  Father  Satan  stands 
He  would  not  blight,  nor  ruin  his  broad  lands, 
But  have  man  happy  from  The  God  apart. 
I  deem,  it  seems,  he  cherishes  in  heart 
A  pride  that  he  by  treachery  had  won 
From  God  the  love  of  man,  God's  latest  son, 
And  if  he  could,  from  man  would  banish  pain, 
From  many  ills  surceasing  would  obtain. 
'Tis  foolishness  to  think  he  would  insist 
To  blight  and  ruin,  crush  with  iron  fist, 
And  make  the  earth  a  hell  spot  where  to  dwell. 
Nay,  he  hath  quite  enough  of  that  in  hell — 
A  desolation,  barren,  bleak  and  bare, 
Nay,  he  would  have  delight,  joy,  plenty  here, 
A  World  that  man  would  never  wish  to  leave. 
Then  surely  must  proud  Satan  oft'times  grieve 
To  see  that  Sin  hath  in  itself  the  seed 
To  blight  the  Earth  in  action,  so  indeed 
That  what  he  set  agoing  has  the  power 
To  blight  and  blast  the  world  any  hour, 
That  Sin  is  a  destruction  in  itself 
And  that  without  the  power  of  demon  elf, 
That  naked  creature  who  would  occupy 
A  human  body,  and  to  see  such  die 
Oft'  is  sorrow,  keenest  and  the  worst, 
That  Sin  to  self  is  with  destruction  curst! 

This  is  the  bitter  dreg  within  his  cup — 
Let  man,  his  servant,  busily  build  up 
His  towers  and  cities — with  the  hardest  stone 
And  when  he  claims  the  City  his  alone, 
To  see  the  years  come  in  their  noiseless  way 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  123 

And  blast  the  beautiful  with  fell  decay; 

And  let  the  Brother  of  the  man  who  built 

Wrench  stone  from  stone — the  gracious  trees  to  wilt — 

And  even  make  once  mighty  Babylon 

A  place  that  Ruin  had  grim  victory  won. 

So  like  the  City— lo,  the  fruitful  fields 

That  give  a  hundred  fold  in  gracious  yields, 

The  orchard,  garden,  and  the  bowering  place 

Become  a  marsh,  plague  breeder,  a  disgrace 

To  human  eye,  man  fears  the  prowling  beasts 

Who  with  the  birds  of  prey  hold  putrid  feasts. 

Think  you  that  Satan  glories  in  such  things? 
Nay,  to  him  this  embittering — sharp  stings 
That  walls  he  builded — ever  more  must  fall — • 
That  on  once  fruitful  fields  the  bittern  call — 
His  fairest,  rarest,  most  delightful  things 
O'ershadow  by  the  stinking,  vulture  wings, 
And  not  a  single  thing  that  he  had  built 
But  in  few  years  destroyed  by  its  own  guilt ! 
Like  shadow  dreams  the  fancy  may  not  hold — 
And  in  his  heart  a  chill — steals  through  all  cold — 
For  such  destruction  beats  upon  his  brain 
With  brazen  tongue  the  ending  of  his  reign, 
The  stealthy  moments  of  time's  feet  he  hears, 
He  knows  that  stealthy  moments  push  the  years; 
He  knows  that  sometimes  weak — for,  lo,  are  Three 
Together,  or  each  one  makes  his  decree 
An  empty  bubble — GOD,  or  Man,  or  Sin, 
Makes  it  impossible  for  him  to  win ! 
So  bafHed  oft* — he  sees  his  well-laid  plas 


124  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Conceived  in  wisdom  only  flash  in  pan — 
The  combination  of  both  man   and   Sin 
Will  cause  at  heart  his  lowest  demon  grin ; 
For  know  on  Earth  in  sinning  a  discord, 
Tho'  Satan  is  the  Prince,  The  Over  Lord, 
And  all  must  outwardly  obey  as  King; 
Yet  here,  to  pride,  the  venom  of  the  sting, 
He  is  not  able  to  read  any  mind — 
In  man  and  demon's  heart  a  chamber  find 
That  only  GOD  can  enter  in  and  see — 
For  this  we  surely  Bless  THE  TRINITY! 

Why  should  it  be  unreasonable  to  think 
We  should  man's  wishes  to  destruction  link — 
In  spite  of  Satan's  wishes  man  would  lift 
The  banner  of  defiance,  and  in  action  swift 
Destroy  what  Satan  would  desire  exist, 
If  GOD  permitted,  man  may  well  resist. 
Oft'  wars  we  loudly  claim  from  Satan  came 
Stand  monuments  to  Heaven  of  Human  shame! 
He  had  been  bafHed  in  ten  thousand  ways, 
Lo,  men  give  to  him  dark  and  ghastly  praise 
For  acts  he  ne'er  inspired,  nor  had  espoused, 
Nor  for  the  warrings  men's  hate  had  aroused, 
For  man  the  Instigator  of  vast  crime 
Committed  through  long  centuries  of  time! 
And  man,  creator,  cause  of  crimes  as  black 
As  ever  crowded  on  Prince  Satan's  track 
Since  he  .made  Eve  the  victim  of  his  sin! 
Satan  corrupted  man — did  fealty  win — 
But  man  was  a  Free  Agent  from  the  first, 


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Deliberately  for  woman's  love  did  burst 
The  Laws  of  God — for  earthly  woman's  love, 
Without  the  Devil's  aid,  to  GOD  did  rebel  prove: 
And  tho'  man  gave  allegiance — it  was  just 
The  measure  that  he  wanted;  for  his  lust 
Of  Power,  and  for  corruption,  was  as  great 
As  ever  cursed  the  Prince  in  lost  estate. 

But  man  is  far  inferior  in  command — 
While  millions  ready  to  the  Devil's  hand 
And  must  obey  him — (as  the  Scriptures  tell — ) 
Men  are  but  units — no  one  can  compel 
Except  by  angry  force,  the  flesh  restrain, 
But  as  to  soul  and  minds  a  task  most  vain 
To  stifle  the  Free  Will  in  Human  soul, 
So  that  the  flesh  alone  in  stern  control; 
So  man  to  man  his  fellow  can  resist 
But  Satan  o'er  his  millions  can  insist 
That  they  be  subject — abject  to  his  will — 
But  man  can  stand  the  daring  Rebel  still 
Giving  allegiance  as  may  suit  his  views. 
Alas,  the  multitudes  of  men  but  choose 
To  be  his  abject  slaves  in  everything 
And  tho'  they  know  it  not — Satan  Lord  and  King! 

May  we  surmise  this  present  War  alone 
Against  the  willing  of  Satanic  throne — 
Wherein  his  gain  to  blast  his  province  fair — 
His  Christendom — the  which  may  well  compare 
In  grandeur,  wealthy,  in  fealty  of  man, 
With  any  age  since  reign  on  Earth  began! 
Here  culture  blossomed  to  a  fatal  flower, 
Music,  and  art,  and  scientific  power 


126  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Opened  vast  petals  in  ten  thousand  ways 

To  make  for  man,  in  these  enlightened  days, 

An  almost  perfect  service — win  their  praise. 

Surely  the  Nations  who  had  drawn  the  sword 

Were  each  deniers  of  our  BLESSED  LORD! 

Their  current  blasphemy  was  vaunted  loud, 

Nor  could  one  find  amid  the  warring  crowd 

A  single  one  obeying  CHRIST'S  behest! 

England  and  Germany  in  derision  bold 

Their  ponderous  professors  wrote  and  told 

The  Bible  full  of  lies— the  Virgin  birth, 

The  Deity,  Blood  Atonement,  thoughts  for  mirth! 

While  France  and  Austria  had  wanton's  jest 

A  sneer  at  heart  beneath  Religious  vest! 

And  Russia  sunk  in  superstitious  rite! 

Now  which  of  all  the  combatants  had  right 

To  bear  the  name  of  Christian — no,  not  one 

That  CHRIST  in  a  contentment  could  smile  on! 

And  which  could  Satan  wish  to  have  destroyed — 

Were  not  each  busy,  in  his  works  employed — 

Why   should   he   blight    and    blast    with    War's    sharp 

wrath — 

Which  best  to  choose,  rush  on  destruction's  path ! 
JTis  folly,  that  this  province  he  had  won 
From  Power  and  from  allegiance  from  GOD'S  SON, 
He  should  destroy,  and  make  its  glories  void, 
Its  millions  murdered,  crippled  and  destroyed! 

One  ray  of  light  between  the  darkness  clears 
He  knows  full  well  the  seven  appointed  years 
Must  give  him  warning  of  that  awful  end ! 


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When  Israel  as,  a  partly,  restored  Race, 

A  Nation  recognized  in  ancient  place, 

Makes  covenant  with  King  for  seven  years — 

From  that  same  hour,  when  signed  that  fell  decree, 

One  may  take  note  of  hour,  and  surely  see, 

When  seven  years  past,  and  not  one  hour  of  Grace, 

The  Earth  once  more  beholds  her  Maker's  face! 

THE  CRUCIFIED  to  all  the  Earth  revealed! 

End  of  the  Gentile  Age — and  Satan's  doom  be  sealed ! 

And  surely  Satan  not  in  haste  to  see 

End  of  his  Kingdom  and  supremacy; 

But  anxious,  ever  hoping  to  put  off 

The  grand  Event — millions  of  Christians  scoff 

The  Coming  of  THE  KING  to  Earth  again 

To  crush  all  Evil  and  as  PRIEST-KING  reign! 

The  march  of  time  to  him  an  awful  thing 

The  hour  to  crush,  and  to  bring  suffering, 

Surely  repugnant  to  his  every  thought — 

With  no  escape,  tho'  earnestly  'tis  sought,  . 

The  reigns  of  Government  from  fingers  riven 

He  a  chained  felon  to  The  Dungeon  driven! 

So  every  thought  to  hinder  and  delay, 

Yet  knowing  that  the  very  hour,  the  day, 

From  all  Eternity  to  GOD  was  known 

Yet  not  a  hint  is  issued  from  the  throne! 

And  so  he  walks  in  darkness  and  in  gloom 

Above  suspended  is  his  awful  doom — 

Respite  of  seven  years !  will  not  his  wishes  trend 

To  have  the  now,  and  that  time  to  extend 

Unutterable  years — think  you  he  hastes  to  see 

The  Day  of  Gloom  and  of  Calamity! 


128  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Then  would  we  deem  these  days  of  wickedness 
Solely  conceived  by  Satan,  and  no  less, 
Nay,  but  we  think  that  zvilfully  blind  men 
Largely  to  blame  for  these  dark  days  of  Sin! 
Not  all  of  Satan  is  their  blasphemy, 
In  colleges  and  pulpits  we  can  see 
Teachers  more  daring  than  the  Demons  be, 
The  vile  blasphemers  of  THE  HOLY  ONE! 
In  every  Demon  surely  is  laid  on 
A  sense  of  awe — a  fearsomeness,  a  dread, 
When  by  Believer  Christly  name  is  said : 
They  would  not  dare  to  utter  or  exclaim 
The  slanders,  lies,  men  couple  to  CHRIST'S  name. 
"Devils  believe  and  tremble!"  saith  the  Word. 
Sin  blinded  men  but  scorn  THE  BLESSED  LORD, 
Scornful  of  Love  and  reckless  of  His  wrath, 
They  sit  all  self-possessed  in  scorner's  path, 
And  CHRIST  permits  them  now  to  do  HIM  wrong 
In  jest,  in  sneer — in  slanderous,  vile  song. 

Alas,  whoever  conquers  in  War  strife 
Europe  as  resurrected  to  new  life, 
Yet  sense  of  evil  to  her  garments  cling, 
Whoe'er  is  Pope,  or  President,  or  King, 
The  evil  venom  still  is  in  the  blood, 
And  tho'  the  out  appearing  seemeth  good, 
The  canker  still  at  heart,  and  soul,  and  brain, 
To  dizzier  state  of  wickedness  will  strain 
Until  the  CHRIST  by  millions  is  disowned 
And  evil  of  The  Devil  is  enthroned. 
A  renovating  time  shall  follow  war, 


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And  all  Satanic  power,  anear  or  far, 

With  fever  energy  build  up  again 

What  men  destroyed  in  madness  and  in  sin, 

For  Satan  loves  this  Europe,  for  it  stands 

His  gem  of  splendor  o'er  the  many  lands 

Who  do  His  bidding  in  their  varied  ways, 

Tho'  Humans  take  unto  themselves  the  praise. 

For  his  delight  the  civilizing  power 

That  blossom  like  the  petals  of  a  flower 

In  grace  and  splendor,  learning,  music,  art, 

Rare  architecture  dear  unto  his  heart, 

And  he  would  make  the  World  a  glorious  place, 

A  paradise  below  to  human  race. 

Now  art,  and  science,  are  not  evil  things 

For  surely  one  ne'er  needs  the  heavenly  wings 

To  see  that  CHRIST  likes  all  things  beautiful. 

We  look  around  and  see  the  world  is  full 

Of  beauty,  and  utility,  and  life; 

But  when  the  Maker,  and  The  Man,  in  strife, 

And  are  not  reconciled — and  men  do  seek 

For  other  Gods  with  insolence  and  cheek 

They  claim,  "We  are  our  own,"  and  they  know  not 

The  evil  that  encompasseth  their  lot, 

And  as  the  will  of  GOD  is  not  desired 

By  Satan  all  their  splendor  is  inspired. 

I  bow  to  you — for  once  the  Truth  you  tell, 
Satan  has  cast  a  hypnotizing  spell 
O'er  the  poor  church,  and  woos  to  pleasant  sleep—- 
This pretty  rhyme  he  whispers  to  the  sheep : 
"The  World  is  growing  better  every  Day!" 


i3o  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

The  rhyme  is  sweet,  it  drives  all  cares  away. 

Ah,  but  your  Lucifer  is  worthy  of  your  pride 

When  he  can  make  the  Christian  Church  confide 

In  His  delusions — and  his  make  believe! 

The  Warning  words  of  CHRIST  they  will  not  heed, 

But  the  sweet  lies  of  Satan  will  receive, 

The  Truth  of  CHRIST  receding — will  recede 

Until  Professing  Church  is  Satan's  Church  indeed. 

And  now  the  Churches  as  a  whole  refuse 

The  Place  that  GOD  has  given  to  the  Jews, 

They've  stolen  their  golden  promises  and  say, 

"The  Jewish  Nation  sinned  its  Day  of  Grace  away! 

The  Jews  can  have  the  Curses — but  the  Blessing 

To  any  Jew  were  surely  most  distressing — 

And  so  in  blindness  of  the  near  at  hand 

Churches  see  Jew  returning  to  his  land, 

Heedless  and  careless  of  its  true  import. 

'Tis  like  as  if  some  madman  made  a  sport 

Above  a  precipice — dancing  as  on  air 

When  Abyss  is  below — and  grim  despair. 

(Oh,  but  a  Godless  Blindness  in  men's  eyes, 

The  blackness,  signs  and  omens,  they  despise, 

All  thinking  they  are  rushing  to  the  light — 

When  Anti-Christian  Madness  looms  in  sight! 

In  vain  GOD'S  Precious  Words  they  read  are  calling, 

tThe  Blackness  and  the  Darkness  most  appalling, 

iThey  wander  like  to  drunken  men,  nor  see 

That  Hell's  Damnation  yawns  all  fearfully 

In*  the  wide  Path  where  they  deem  Triumph  stands. 

Apocalypse  like  sealed  Book  in  their  hands — 

The  Last  Book  of  The  Bible  is  to  them 


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Either  past  History — or  grotesque  and  dim — 
A  Book  of  Monsters — and  of  little  good 
For  practical  Life  purposes;  and  then — 
Really  did  THE  LORD  want  it  understood 
'Til  all  the  signs  and  symbols  were  fulfilled, 
And  that  so  plain  the  most  unlettered  men 
Could  feel  their  senses  and  their  beings  thrilled 
With  GOD'S  fulfillment  of  His  Mystic  Page!" 

So  the  last  message  given  by  CHRIST  to  man 
Is  little  more  than  a  mere  flash  in  pan, 
A  puzzle  that  some  laugh  at,  and  deride, 
And  millions  in  the  Churches  cast  aside 
As  not  quite  worth  a  consideration, 
Fit  only  for  some  crankish  dissipation; 
Except  some  passage,  quoted  wrongly,  said 
At  funeral  time  above  the  coffin'd  dead. 
So  quenched  the  light  CHRIST  gave  for  Churches'  path — 
And  the  Poor  Church  goes  stumbling  to  the  wrath 
Of  Anti-Christ's  fell  days — and  knoweth  not 
The  Bitterness  and  Woes  that  are  her  lot — 
She  shall  be  rent  by  Anti-Christian  rage — 
All  unprepared  she  laugheth  and  is  gay — 
As  all  the  future  a  bright  holiday! 

If  in  The  Book  are  mingled  Truth  and  Lies 
'Twill  soon  lose  Holiness  in  common  eyes, 
And  all  its  precepts  men  will  soon  despise; 
Faith  built  on  Sophistry  all  men  denies, 
For  who  shall  be  the  Judge  of  Truth  and  Lies 
When  every  Passage  Some  will  criticise 


132  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  hold  exceptions  to  its  Truthfulness, 
A  Regular  hodge-podge  and  nothing  less. 
And  so  all  men  grew  reckless  of  restraint 
Twere  surely  foolishness  to  be  a  Saint 
Resigning  every  Pleasure  given  to  men; 
So  men  grew  reckless  in  the  act  of  sin 
Instead  of  Faith  grew  up  a  strong  desire 
To  grasp  the  best  of  all  things — like  a  fire 
In  heart  and  soul — if  one  had  soul  and  brain, 
The  largest  round  of  Pleasure  to  obtain 
If  neighbors  held  what  you  desired — the  worse 
For  him,  woe  for  his  wife,  his  house,  his  purse. 
For  when  you  rid  the  Conscience  of  its  stings 
You  soon  destroy  a  Faith  in  Holy  Things, 
When  the  foundations  of  The  Faith  are  rent 
And  men  say,  No  Eternal  Punishment, 
The  Shafts  of  Doubt  into  the  soul  are  sent, 
And  Doubt  will  conquer  steadily — at  last 
Then  Age  of  a  Belief  is  ever  past. 

Yet  these  same  Teachers  who  The  CHRIST  betrayed 
On  Soul  of  Man  had  strangest  Doctrine  laid, 
A  Sophistry  as  fine  spun  as  a  thread 
The  Spider's  spinning  where  to  prey  is  led 
What  tho'  THE  CHRIST  was  never  Living  Fact 
Ne'er  spoke  a  sentence — ne'er  did  any  act — 
Such  in  the  least  should  never  more  detract 
From  a  CHRIST  in  the  heart — a  holy  fire 
That  ever  to  the  better  must  aspire — 
If  The  Historic  Christ  no  man  saw  or  knew 
The  Ideal  CHRIST  was  ever  fresh  and  New! 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  133 

Here  you  disown — there  you  accept  the  Text — 
But  foolishness  like  this  not  long  perplexed 
The  Common  man — the  shortest  cut  he  took 
And  sent  to  the  bow-wows  The  Holy  Book, 
Nor  cared  for  CHRIST,  nor  GOD,  nor  anything, 
That  did  not  present  good  things  to  him  bring — 
And  so  despising  all  and  every  school 
Man  stood  at  last  under  Satanic  Rule ! 

To  Demons  even  then  the  bounds  are  set, 
Where  GOD  has  chosen  there  you  spread  your  net 
In  bounds  where  Roman  Empire  ruled  before, 
Tis  there  the  Race  shall  Anti-Christ  adore; 
And  Men  are  fast  preparing  for  that  end, 
Their  every  thought  to  that  fell  pathway  trend, 
Slowly,  but  surely,  comes  infernal  Hour 
When  Satan  gives  to  Anti-Christ  his  power! 

Men  preach  of  Arbitration  and  of  Peace, 
They  grow  so  eloquent  that  wars  shall  cease 
And  Nations'  quarrels  settle  at  the  Hague, 
As  if  The  Bible  on  such  question  vague! 
Poor  Fools  such  men — they  babble  foolishly — 
Refuse  GOD'S  words — no  Lasting  Peace  shall  be 
'Til  CHRIST  Returns!   And  while  men  cry 
The  Time  of  Glorious  Peace  is  very  nigh, 
The  Nations  are  preparing  for  a  fight 
Imperial,  Sanguine — mad  Destructive  Might — 
That  like  a  monsoon — overwhelming  storm 
Shall  shatter  Europe  in  its  present  form, 
And  suddenly  from  that  ensanguine  fray 


134  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Ten  Kingdoms  ruled  by  delegated  sway — 

Where  Caesars  ruled  when  Dawned  the  Christian  Day! 

And  in  that  time  once  more  The  Jewish  Race 
Stand  with  glad  Joy  upon  the  ancient  place — 
The  Temple  built — Jerusalem  so  rich 
That  Gentile  Fingers  have  again  the  itch 
To  rcb  and  plunder! 

And  Babylon! 

Again  rebuilt,  in  a  short  time  hath  won 
Allegiance  to  her  Glory  from  all  men, 
Her  reign  of  splendor  and  of  wealth  begin 
Supreme  in  Commerce — Great  Heart  of  The  World, 
Around  her  Glory  thoughts  of  men  have  curled, 
And  at  her  Docks  flags  of  all  nations  furled, 
Her  Leviathans  plowing  all  the  seas, 
Her  Flag  "An  Epha"  floats  on  every  breeze, 
Her  merchantmen  The  Princes  of  the  Earth. 
For  in  these  olden  Cities  second  birth 
A  Glory  and  a  Splendor  shall  arise 
To  dazzle,  as  enchantment,  human  eyes — 
And  Europe  rush  to  seize  the  Golden  Prize. 

Came  a  new  Nimrod  with  the  olden  dream, 
For  he  it  was  who  made  her  truly  great, 
Perchance,  a  Bastard,  one  of  low  estate, 
To  whom  Satanic  energy  was  given — 
Who  by  Satanic  energy  was  driven — 
To  build  This  City — focus  human  eyes 
Who  never  had  seen  Magic  City  rise 
In  stately  splendor  in  so  short  a  time, 
Like  Babylon  of  Old,  from  brick  and  slime. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  135 

No  doubt  your  devil,  cunning  to  the  fore, 
Whispering  to  man  a  promise  to  restore 
The  Golden  Age  by  a  Messiah  Born 
Without  Earth  Mother — Him  Satan  shall  adorn 
With  understanding  and  a  knowledge  vast 
That  men  shall  cry:    "This  is  our  GOD  at  last  I" 
For  all  his  Super-Learning  be  confined 
To  show  he  is  as  one  with  human  kind, 
Their  actions  and  their  thoughts  are  not  amiss 
Obeying  Nature's  Inclinations  is  pure  bliss — 
And  not  dire  sinning  as  The  Bible  said. 
Then  Old  Beliefs  come  forth  as  from  the  dead — 
Pallas  Athena  prophecy — no   dream — 
Springing  from  brain  of  Jupiter  supreme — 
For  Orators  and  statesmen  not  in  vain 
Pronounce  This  God  sprang  from  Satanic  brain 
So  Full  of  Wisdom,  profound  and  complete — 
Demanding  all  to  Worship  at  his  feet! 
For  as  men  held  GOD'S  Truth  as  thing  all  vain 
GOD  let  Delusion  fall  on  human  brain, 
So  that  men  stumbled  as  in  fearful  night, 
No  more  could  they  distinguish  of  The  Right, 
So  that  they  wandered  in  a  deadly  mist 
No  longer  could  Satanic  power  resist, 
They  followed  with  a  blindness  most  complete 
The  pathway  made  by  Satan  for  their  feet. 
So  when  he  sets  The  Man,  to  be  most  base, 
To  be  Messiah  to  the  human  race, 
Through  all  the  bounds  of  the  Old  Roman  Earth 
Will  ring  glad  songs  of  Praise  and  Joyful  Mirth. 


136  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

O  well  may  the  men  of  the  world  be  amazed 
As  the  Glory  of  Babylon  over  them  blazed — 
A  splendor  surpassing  the  dream  of  men's  brain — 
That  City  of  Glory  on  Euphrates  plain. 
'Twas  Satan's  conception — 'twas  Satan's  design — 
And  poor  foolish  men  said,  "Tis  surely  Divine!" 
But  only  a  copy — what  you  had  beheld 
In  early  Creation — the  days  of  long  eld 
When  CHRIST  had  created  for  Satan  a  place, 
A  palace,  a  dwelling — before  his  disgrace 
Had  fallen  upon  him — that  City  again 
Would  Satan  rebuild  on  Shinar's  great  plain. 
The  riches  of  earth — the  wealth  of  all  lands — 
Were  poured  to  the  wasting  of  Antichrist's  hands, 
Whatever  unique,  and  costly,  and  rare. 
Were  brought  with  the  worship  of  willingness  there — 
The  rich  men  were  lavish,  the  whole  world  round — 
The  ships  of  all  Nations  to  Babylon  bound 
With  their  Cargoes  of  gifts — and  the  poor  not  behind — 
For  joyful  the  labor  and  service  they  gave — 
The  Multitude  toiling  as  heart  of  one  slave 
That  loved  of  his  Master  to  shadow  of  death. 
From  over  the  world,  its  length  and  its  breadth, 
Great  Artisans  gathered  and  wrought  as  one  brain — 
Nor  heeding  of  suffering,  toiling,  nor  pain, 
So  they  could  contribute  the  smallest  of  mite — 
To  die  in  such  service  was  surely  delight — 
For  the  hearts  of  all  men  were  as  one  in  this  thing — 
"This  God  is  our  Brother — This  God  is  our  King!" 


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Not  faith  now  but  sight,  and  the  seeing  was  joy, , 

And  gladness  all  filling  that  he  should  employ 

Their  brain  and  their  hands,  and  they  willing  wrought 

To  make  as  a  substance  Satanical  thought — 

For  men  were  enamored  at  seeing  their  God — 

"He  eats,  and  he  drinks,  and  treads  the  same  sod!" 

They  saw  him,  they  heard  him — and  some  touch  his 

hand — 

It  was  almost  as  much  as  the  human  could  stand — 
They  were  drunk,  as  it  were,  in  the  throes  of  their  joy 
And  never  did  question  of  doubting  annoy — • 
A  satisfied  brain — and  a  satisfied  heart — 
Mid  the  shaping  of  Glory  and  exquisite  art. 
So  the  city  arose  as  a  flower  may  be  born 
With  the  sap  of  the  earth,  and  the  dew,  and  the  morn, 
A  dream  the  most  ravishing  ever  men  saw, 
The  gazers  beheld  it  in  worshipping  awe 
Afraid  it  would  vanish — like  temples  in  sky 
Made  of  clouds  when  the  sunshine  was  blushing  to  die. 
No  Hovels,  foul  alleys,  were  here  to  the  gaze — 
But  broadly  magnificent  stretched  the  street  ways — 
The  building  for  poor  men  had  open  wide  space 
With  modern  conception  for  use  and  for  grace; 
And  fountains  and  Parks,  rare  trees  and  sweet  flowers. 
And  rare  bands  of  music  through  twenty- four  hours — 
To  sounds  most  harmonious  the  toiler  closed  eyes, 
Should  he  wake  in  the  night  hours  to  him  no  surprise 
To  hear  of  sweet  measure — and  so  back  to  dreams — 
And  when  o'er  the  world  the  morning  first  beams 
He  awoke  to  his  toil  at  sounds  that  were  sweet — 
From  morning  to  even  when  toiling  complete — 
The  sound  of  sweet  music  made  short  the  day's  task. 


138  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  such  things  for  eating,  all  mortal  could  ask — 
And  wine  of  the  rarest  in  goblet  and  flask — 
And  clothes  were  of  broadcloth,  and  satin,  and  silk — 
And  faces  were  bathed  in  wild  asses'  milk, 
And  Jewels  and  diamonds  no  longer  were  rare, 
They  flashed  on  all  fingers,  and  breasts  and  in  hair. 
It  was,  ho !  to  the  merry — to  languorous  dance — 
It  was  to  be  mated  in  Kisses  and  glance — 
No  wives  and  no  husbands — it  was,  ho!  to  be  free 
As  the  kine  of  the  fields — the  birds  on  the  tree — 
You  saw  and  you  coveted  passing  sweet  charms 
And  none  was  to  hinder  the  circling  of  arms — 
For  all  were  unfettered — and  free  as  the  wind 
For  passion  triumphant,  and  never  confined; 
This  rose  for  an  hour — that  rose  for  a  day — 
Tomorrow  there  cometh  a  fairer  array — 
With  never  a  bond  to  keep  thee  in  check, 
With  never  a  shackle  to  fall  on  thy  neck — 
'Twas  this  one  today,  and  that  one  tomorrow, 
No  parting  with  tears,  nor  pleadings,  nor  sorrow — 
But  touch  as  you  will — possess  and  forsake — 
What  you  will  discard  another  will  take — 
And  you  will  possess  what  another  discards — 
The  rattle  of  dice  box — the  cutting  of  cards — 
The  Eating — the  drinking — the  wasting  of  treasure — 
For  what  of  your  gold  if  it  buyeth  not  pleasure — 
The  pampering  of  flesh — and  taking  one's  ease 
With  never  a  law  but  Just  Do  as  you  Please! 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  139 

Vile  Spirit!  and  this  the  Heaven  you'll  bring — 
And  men  all  delighted  shall  worship  your  King — 
Come  and  go  at  his  bidding — and  never  deny 
The  sin  of  the  flesh — not  the  senses,  nor  the  eye, 
And  thus  for  three  years  and  a  half  be  the  revel 
Of  you,  and  of  yours,  neath  the  reign  of  The  Devil! 

Around  Jerusalem  and  Babylon 
The  Crisis  of  the  World  most  surely  won, 
For  the  Returned  Jews  with  all  their  wealth 
Be  fearful  of  the  thought  that  Gentile  felt 
At  heart  still  bitterness  and  scorn  and  hate, 
And  so  to  press  back  feelings  of  Grim  Fate 
They'll  send  Ambassadors  to  Babylon — 
So  by  vast  Largess  is  that  Great  Prince  won 
To  be  Protecting  Friend  for  Seven  Years. 
But  time  of  short  rejoicing — soon  old  fears 
Again  possess  them  for  The  Prince  will  come 
And  entering  in  The  City  shall  possess 
The  Temple  and  the  Citadel — grim  Distress 
And  agony  once  more  shall  strike  them  dumb. 

Like  Butter  and  like  honey  his  soft  words — 
But  his  acts  sharper  than  the  two-edged  swords; 
He  pictures  all  the  future  with  glad  hope — 
Give  them  short-shift  with  Guillotine  and  rope ; 
His  manners  be  superb  in  courtesy — 
His  act  more  stinging  than  a  scorpion's  be; 
No  matter  if  they  bend  the  servile  knee, 
Lay  down  in  dust  before  his  charger's  feet 
Servility  of  no  Race  so  complete, 


140  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

He  like  a  tiger  with  ferocious  jaws 
But  laughs  to  scorn  his  promises,  his  laws, 
And  fastened  on  their  throat  as  if  to  tear 
Their  life  hopes  with  a  venom  strangely  rare. 

Thou  wicked  spirit,  squatting  dumbly  there, 
I  know  full  well  that  Revelry  you'll  share 
Whether  in  high  or  low  thou  shalt  reside, 
Thou  shalt  be  bitter  thorn  in  Israel's  side, 
And  all  the  cunning  that  long  Ages  taught 
Surely  shall  bring  envenomed  cruel  thought 
So  monstrous  wickedness  by  thee  be  wrought. 
And  strange  the  things  indeed  thou  art  to  see — 
For  where  the  Buildings  of  the  Temple  be 
Shall  be  the  habitation  and  foul  nest 
Of  creatures  hating  CHRIST — there  men  possessed 
With  all  the  Chiefest  Demons  of  your  Race — 
For  that  King  entering  The  Most  Holy  Place 
Showing  contempt  of  all  JEHOVAH'S  Power — 
Shall  call  men  to  be  Witnesses  that  hour — 
JEHOVAH  and  His  CHRIST  are  laughed  to  Scorn ! 
And  where  GOD'S  Ark  should  empty  place  adorn 
There  shall  be  planted  throne  of  Jeweled  Gold. 
And  is  it  vain  to  think  men  shall  behold 
The  King,  thus  seated,  lifted  high  in  air 
By  millions,  Demons,  Satan  gathers  there — 
Men  shall  behold  astonished,  Beings  fair 
That  never  mortals  can  with  them  compare, 
Beings  Superbly  Grand — who  take  his  throne 
High  in  Mid  air — King  seated  there  alone — • 
With  mighty  thunderings  of  unseen  hosts 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  141 

Filling  the  air  and  earth  with  mighty  boast 
This  Man  a  God  who  shall  JEHOVAH  crush — • 
Then  bear  the  King  back  to  the  Holy  Place — 
Where  he  as  God  dispenses  gifts  and  grace — 
And  Human  led  by  Demons  there  shall  rush 
To  do  him  homage  with  the  tongue  and  knee — : 
With  shoutings  fierce  as  hurricane  may  be ! 

Who  the  four  angels  in  Euphrates  bound 
Who  never  yet  gave  warning,  nor  a  sound 
Through  weary  ages,  to  humanity — 
Tho'  hid — the  scourge  of  GOD  that's  yet  to  be, 
The  Scorpion  sting  chastisement  for  the  sin 
Of  GOD  abandoned,  GOD  despising  men! 
Prisoners  now  bound  in  the  Euphrates  tide 
Beneath  its  rapid  waters  deep  and  wide, 
The  four  Chiefs  waiting  for  the  coming  hour 
When  loosened — burst  with  savage,  pent-up  power, 
Of  Myriads  upon  Myriads  for  the  fray 
And  terror  of  the  Anti-Christian  Day. 

Surely  there  must  have  been  strange  wanton  crime, 
A  lower  level  of  debauching  slime, 
That  made  GOD  chain  them  to  their  sinning  place 
Their  scene  of  Triumph — and  of  deep  disgrace 
Waiting,  still  waiting  as  the  years  swept  by 
Idle,  inactive,  with  the  bitter  cry; 
The  inactivity  to  limb  and  brain 
Is  worse  than  most  excruciating  pain; 
For  never  once  into  the  prison  keep 
Stole  one  sweet  moment  of  oblivious  sleep, 


I42  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

So  wide  awake — alert — but  all  in  vain 

In  Summer,  Winter,  sunshine,  pattering  rain; 

And  ever  more  the  river  in  the  ear 

'Til  every  second  lengthened  to  a  year. 

The  Seconds  into  Minutes —  those  to  days, 

And  days  to  years  like  burnished  brasses  blaze 

Smote  on  the  eyeballs  set  in  steady  gaze, 

'Twere  horrible,  appalling,  and  each  sense 

Stretched  to  the  breaking  point — high  strung — intense — 

But  never  so  intense  to  crack  or  strain 

Of  wishing — when  all  hoping  was  in  vain. 

A  brain  weird,  thinking  of  the  days  gone  by — 

The  mirage  of  the  first  glimpse  of  the  eye 

Of  early  Paradise — the  flowers  that  grew 

Whose  petals  and  green  leaves  stood  out  to  view, 

And  nodded  as  were  wont  in  olden  days, 

Can  see  their  long  stalks  bent  a  score  of  ways 

In  the  soft  kissing  breezes  loving  them — 

Can  see  again  the  columned,  graceful  stem, 

The  wondrous  branching  out  of  tender  leaves — 

The  serrated  edges,  and  the  stains 

Of  rarest  colors  running  in  the  veins — 

The  flowers — the  flowers  once  gathered  in  great  sheaves — 

The  perfumes — oh,  the  perfumes  to  the  sense 

'Twould  be  to  years  of  suffering  recompense 

To  hide  the  face  one  minute  in  such  wealth — 

Surely  surcease  to  every  pain  throb  felt — 

And  then  the  trees,  their  shadows  in  the  sun — 

Upon  the  grass  their  varyings  never  done 

With  never  the  same  pattern,  but  change, 

Mosaics  ever  beautifully  strange — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  143 

The  Carols  of  the  birds  in  branches  high — 

The  garden  stretches — and  the  uplands  vast 

That  never  knew  a  blight — nor  winter  blast — 

The  woods,  the  forests,  and  the  graceful  hills, 

The  mountain  ranges  that  white  snow  flake  fills — • 

The  cliffs,  the  chasms — and  the  waterfalls — 

Lo,  ever  to  sweet  sounding  echo  calls — 

The  springs,  the  rivulets  between  the  hills, 

The  chuckling  brooks,  the  laughter  loving  rills — - 

The  rivers  broad  and  stately  and  serene — 

And  then  the  sparkling  ocean's  blue  and  green — ' 

The  beach,  the  sandy  coves — the  open  bay — 

The  Islands  in  the  distance — far  away 

Like  a  green  stone  on  woman's  finger  set — 

O  Paradise,  O  Paradise,  can  one  forget! 

One  shivers  to  remember,  yet  it  comes 

To  brain  and  senses  while  the  river  drums 

It  cries  and  its  pulsations  evermore — 

While  coming  and  then  fading  lies  the  shore — • 

Of  Paradise  to  mock  and  to  deride — 

Euphrates  muddy  waters  slip  and  slide 

A  monotone — A  horror  in  its  song — 

'Till  every  tingling  sense — cries  "God!  how  long?" 

Yet  when  comes  ending  of  their  idleness — 
They  will  be  to  the  World  dire  distress, 
Humanity  the  victims  of  their  wrath, 
Their  rush  shall  be  a  devastated  path 
Of  cursing,  shrieking,  maimed  humanity; 
For  they  shall  rush  with  an  imperious  force 
The  Roman  Empire  their  encircling  course — 


144  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  Devastation  bitter  and  complete 

When  ever  comes  the  rushing  of  their  feet — 

Their  time — "An  hour,  a  day,  a  month — a  year !" 

But  in  that  space — what  bitterness,  what  fear, 

What  shuddering,  what  shrinking  from  a  foe 

One  cannot  see — but  every  soul  will  know 

Myriad  of  Myriads  horsemen  everywhere 

Sweeping  and  circling  on  the  earth,  in  air ; 

The  lion-headed  horses — mouth  and  tail 

Like  serpents  cunning,  crafty  to  assail — 

Breast  plates  of  fire,  and  jacinth,  and  brimstone, 

Surely  a  tempest  terrible  be  sown 

Of  fire,  and  smoke,  and  brimstone,  so  that  men 

Are  slain  by  tens  of  thousand — kith  and  kin 

Disowned  forgotten — every  human  tie 

Faded  from  heart,  from  brain,  from  soul,  from  eye 

Humanity  all  shuddering  and  torn 

Like  thistle  down  before  a  cyclone  borne — 

Before  an  avalanche  of   serried   might 

With  only  fire  and  smoke  to  human  sight — 

The  Riders  and  the  horses  all  unseen — 

That  surely  half  its  bitterness  I  ween 

An  unseen  furious  foe  to  strike — to  smite — 

It  were  indeed  a  most  unequaled  fight 

Humanity  by  such  be  torn,  and  shattered, 

Grimly  distorted,  maimed  and  battered — 

'Til  all  the  Roman  Empire  shriek  in  wrath 

Hatred  of  Secret  foe  in  secret  path. 

And  surely  scare  a  spot  but  sees  the  dead — 

The  cities  frantic — dead  uncoffined — 

E'en  rich  can  neither  bribe,  nor  bar  this  foe — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  145 

In  cities,  villages,,  and  fields  wide  spread, 
Filled  with  the  stricken,  suffering  and  dead, 
A  very  charnal  house,  with  fetid  stench 
Of  bodies  cast  into  the  open  trench, 
Or  piled  pellmell  into  the  open  tombs, 
As  loathsome  to  the  senses  as  the  fumes 
Snorted  by  unseen  horses  as  they  spun 
Heedless  alike  of  rise  and  setting  sun. 

And  yet  'mid  all  the  clamor  and  dismay 
Men  waxed  in  savage  sinning  day  by  day, 
The  living  'mid  the  corpses  hold  carouse 
Laughter  and  Weeping  dwell  in  the  same  house, 
And  blasphemy  more  open,  daring,  bald, 
As  Dying  to  the  Living  gasping,  called 
For  hatefulness  to  GOD  and  to  His  SON — 
'Til  even  Blasphemy  of  Hell  outdone — 
And  unrepenting,  sinning  to  the  last 
Out  to  the  mist  and  Darkness  millions  passed. 

How  terrible  the  thought  that  on  the  world 
Countless  battalions  of  vile  Demons  hurled 
To  creep  in  men  and  women — to  betray 
And  in  the  direst  wickendess  array 
Humanity  against  GOD  and  His  SON — 
Thereby  the  Crest  Wave  of  Rebellion  won ! 
For  men  led  on  by  Demons  shall  oppose 
JEHOVAH'S  CHRIST — and  dare  in  deadly  close 
Match  even  strength  with  the  Omnipotent! 
Men  by  the  Venom  of  the  Demons  sent 
To  dare  CHRIST'S  might  on  Armageddon's  Field — 
There  hate  to  CHRIST  and  Jew  shall  be  revealed 


146  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

On  the  thick  bosses  of  Eternal  shield 

Evil  be  shattered,  broken,  and  shall  yield 

Its  Majesty  and  Power — trembling  in  wild  fears, 

Give  CHRIST  Allegiance  for  The  Thousand  Years. 

If  'tis  a  horror  now  to  meet  but  one 

What  of  the  millions  men  shall  look  upon 

Hearing  their  jests,  their  blasphemy,  their  scream. 

Men  unbelieving  now  cry:   "Crank's  wild  dream!" 
And  yet  if  God's  Word  true  men  yet  shall  see 
Myriads  on  myriads  in  the  years  to  be 
Like  such  as  these — perchance,  and  even  worse ; 
For  when  will  fall  Satanic  blighting  curse 
The  Earth  a  maelstrom  of  iniquity — 
And  Earth  no  better  than  The  Pit  to  see ! 
The  very  thought  is  surely  most  appalling, 
To  know  in  little  space,  from  Satan's  calling 
Millions  of  Demons  on  this  globe  be  falling — • 
From  upper  spaces — rise  from  lower  places — 
Like  locust  moving  over  Earth's  broad  spaces — 
Creeping  in  souls  of  men  to  find  a  rest 
And  in  Humanity  make  filthy  nest. 

Lo,  then  o'er  Europe  Revelry  of  Hell! 
For  Human  Beings  by  Satanic  spell, 
Demon  possessed,  shall  wallow  in  the  slime 
Of  infamy,  pollution,  and  of  crime. 
The  ten  commandments  be  reversed  indeed — 
The  "Thou  shalt  not"  laughed  at,  and  all  may  read 
"Thou  shalt  do  so!"  'til  Humans  are  as  brutes — 
And  surely  such  a  sowing  will  give  fruits 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  147 

That  will  appal,  for  Lo,  Satanic  power 
(Unchecked  by  Christ)  Triumphant  for  the  hour. 

For  GOD  hath  set  apart  a  certain  space 
Wherein  HE  shall  withdraw  His  Royal  Grace 
From  Roman  Earth — Leave  Human,  Satan's  prey, 
The  time  is  set — the  years,  the  hours — the  day 
Not  more,  not  less — decree  immutable — 
The  Word  of  GOD  doth  surely  this  foretell. 

They  had  despised  His  CHRIST  two  thousand  years — 
Hailed  HIM  with  mockery,  with  taunts,  with  sneers ; 
Tho'  men  despised  HIM — His  Love  never  waned — 
Tho'  generation  after  Generation  had  obtained 
The  Life  for  asking — but  they  held  HIM  light 
And  went  their  ways  in  sullenness  and  slight, 
Until  GOD'S  Clock  of  Patience  told  the  Hour — 
Then  Grace  withdrawn.     To  Satan's  deadly  power 
Humanity  forsaken — and  GOD  laid 
A  silence  on  THE  SPIRIT,  and  let  men 
Drink  to  the  dregs  of  folly  and  of  sin — 
Defying  GOD — and  yet  were  not  afraid ! 

For  three  years  and  one-half  GOD  stands  aside 
In  a  grim  silence — and  no  word  gives  forth — 
Humanity  shall  laugh  at,  shall  deride 
And  all  His  attributes  be  made  the  sport 
Of  men  and  Devils — Satan  shall  be  God 
To  rule  the  Roman  world  with  iron  rod — 
His  will,  his  way,  his  purpose,  his  design, 
GOD  will  all  government  to  him  resign, 
And  Satan's  King  shall  have  supreme  command 


148  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

The  Roman  World  be  given  to  his  hand — 
His  arbitrary  wish  the  only  law — 
Humanity  shall  worship  in  fell  awe 
Well  knowing  it  were  useless  to  dispute — 
He  stands  embodiment  of  Satan's  truth! 
And  woe  to  those  who  question  or  dispute, 
Like  flies  of  summer  swept  away  in  wrath 
Humanity  must  tread  his  bitter  path 
Unquestioning  its  Wisdom  or  its  sense. 
And  in  this  service  there  be  no  pretense 
For  the  indwelling  demons  would  betray 
Faintest  reflection  from  Satanic  sway — 
A  witness  'gainst  the  victim — its  poor  prey. 

Oh,  what  an  awful  world! — In  little  space 
Men  knew  the  bitterness  of  this  embrace — 
A  Spirit  in  their  breast  a  hostile  thing 
That  by  its  treachery  rejoiced  to  bring 
Upon  its  victim  dire  contumely — 
When  Demon  entered  first — a  glorious  thing 
To  feed  vile  appetite  'twould  ever  bring 
The  coveted  desire  as  if  with  joy — 
Striving  to  please  alone  seemed  its  employ — 
Brief  hour  of  pleasure,  in  a  little  space 
The  victim  shivers  in  that  fell  embrace, 
The  Demon  has  its  wish  in  everything! 
In  vain  the  victim  feels  keen  suffering 
Its  crying  and  its  pleading  all  in  vain, 
The  Demon  ever  holds  the  whip  and  rein 
Driving  the  human — 'til  with  every  breath 
It  cries  to  heaven  for  gentle  touch  of  Death — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  149 

But  seeking  Death  is  now  a  thing  most  vain, 
Life  throbbed  in  every  artery  and  vein 
And  would  not  at  men's  bidding  stand  aside — 
In  Roman  earth  could  be  no  suicide! 

What  a  grim  Living — when  the  Demon  sought 
To  analyze  its  victim's  every  thought, 
And  if  Disloyalty  to  Satan  there 
The  tortured  victim  shrieked  in  its  despair. 
So  wanting  not  to  live — it  could  not  die — 
But  grovelling  at  the  Demon's  feet  to  lie 
Fearing  to  think — fearing  of  everything — 
Without  a  ray  of  Hope  in  all  its  suffering. 
Despairing  of  this  world — and  that  "To  Come  1" 
The  Terribleness  of  such  made  men  dumb — 
The  future  life  no  longer  hid  from  sight, 
All  Agnostic  thought  now  put  to  flight, 
Men  are  no  longer  doubting  and  perplexed 
Of  what  their  end  in  this  life  and  the  next — 
And  Having  trampled  on  the  CHRISTLY  blood 
Now  as  apostates  before  GOD  they  stood 
Without  a  single  ray  of  Hope  to  light 
The  Blackness  of  an  everlasting  night. 
As  they  would  have  not  of  THE  CHRIST — HE  gave 
Them  of  a  King  more  cruel  than  the  grave — 
Humanity  became  most  base  and  servile  slave. 

They  laughed  at  CHRIST — and  did  despise  His  Claim — 
He  who  for  Sinners  bore  sins'  blunt  and  shame — 
By  His  shed  blood  through  sacrifice  had  won 
The  Power  to  make  each  sinner  as  GOD'S  son — 


150  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

HIM  they  cast  forth,  and  coupled  with  His  Name 
A  word  of  Infamy  and  biting  shame ! 
So  man  to  man — until  whole  Nations  said: 
"We  will  not  have  this  Christ  to  be  our  head — 
He  was  a  Fraud  and  rose  not  from  the  Dead — 
All  Christian  sacraments  we  lay  on  shelf — 
Man  is  our  God — let  each  man  worship  self!" 
So  SPIRIT'S  pleadings  ceased,  and  men  cast  forth 
To  be  the  victims  of  the  demons  sport — 
Pampered  at  first — and  then  the  deadly  sting 
It  was  indeed  a  sad  awakening — 
Outcast  from  GOD — a  devil  hated  thing — 
What  voice  portray  their  fearful  suffering — 
No  hope  on  earth — and  surely  they  were  dumb 
With  awful  horror  at  The  World  to  Come ! 
But  surely  measured  are  the  Evil  Days. 

Lo,  CHRIST  all  suddenly  His  Wrath  Displays — 
And  fast  and  thick  the  vials  of  His  wrath 
Poured  out  upon  the  Anti-Christian  path — 
And  CHRIST  at  last  descends  on  Olivet ! 
Lo,  Good  and  Evil  to  fell  close  are  met — 
Decisive  and  so  short  the  quick  cleavage — : 
Vain  the  Satanic,  and  the  human  rage. 

A  Word  and,  lo!  the  victory  is  won — 

When  comes  the  setting  of  the  evening  sun 

The  World  hath  Peace— The  Prince  of  Peace  hath  come ! 

The  Raging  and  the  warrings  are  all  dumb — 

The  CHRISTLY  enemies  are  swept  away — 

The  Human  smote  by  plague  and  quick  decay — 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  151 

The  Demons  to  the  pit — and  Satan  bound — 
No  evil  thing  is  left  the  World  around. 

And  where,  O  Wickedness,  shalt  thou  be  found 
But  in  the  deepest  chambers  of  The  Pit, 
A  cheerless  place  where  never  light  is  lit, 
A  misery  that  for  a  thousand  years 
Shall  hold  thee  in  thine  agony  and  fears. 

And  then  that  little  space  to  be  set  free, 
Full  to  dark  wickedness  thy  soul  shall  flee 
Again  to  tempt  the  human — be  let  in 
The  flesh  to  wallow  in  the  Depths  of  Sin 
To  daring  of  High  Heaven  in  everything — 

But  soon  the  little  space  time  taketh  wing 
Then  out  to  utter  darkness  to  be  cast, 
Thy  sinning  with  the  Human  ever  past, 
At  thy  fate  surely  one  may  stand  aghast 
And  pity  thee  with  pity  all  too  late, 
For  thou  mid  myriads  shall  be  desolate — 
An  unclean  Creature  with  an  awful  Fate! 

The  ages — Oh,  the  ages  yet  to  come! 
Can  wisdom  grasp  totality — the  sum? 
The  Ages  after  Ages  disappear 
And  still  no  closer  is  the  end  anear — 
Each  age  be  like  a  sand  cube  of  the  beach 
The  out  unending  no  man's  mind  can  reach. 


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So  when  long  ages  pass — and  I  (shall  be 
Saved  by  His  Blood)  have  life  continually, 
Not  waxing  old,  decrepit,  but  still  strong 
In  flesh  and  soul  while  Ages  roll  along, 
Unperishing,  yet  growing  in  clear  mind, 
In  learning,  and  in  knowledge  not  confined 
To  any  vision,  scope,  nor  time,  nor  place, 
Freedom  to  come  and  go  in  vaster  space 
Than  we  may  picture  now  in  wildest  dream. 

Then  will  there  come  a  day — ah,  may  I  deem 
Such  hour  be  mine — to  go  and  visit  thee — 
Deep  in  thy  prison  house  thy  form  to  see, 
And  question  if  repentance  shed  one  ray 
Of  hope  upon  thy  dark  and  dismal  way — 
One  faint  hope  that  THE  CHRIST  may  pitying  be—* 
In  His  sweet  grace  one  moment  think  of  thee. 
And  if  such  ever  cometh  to  thy  mind 
The  wisher  surely  can  some  comfort  find 
To  one  that  calleth  HE  is  very  nigh. 
In  knowing  that  HE  heeds  the  sparrow's  cry! 

But  should  I  find  thee  still  in  love  with  sin 
And  all  the  Ages  no  repentance  win — 
Surely  I  freely  would  forgive  thee  all 
O'er  thy  transgressions  let  Oblivion  fall — 
I  could  but  shed  a  tear — and  go  my  way — • 
And  who  may  dare  say  'twere  a  sin  to  pray—- 
If CHRIST  should  call — thou  wouldst  not  answer — Nay! 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  153 

JEHOVAH'S  TESTIMONY 

"To  the  law  and  to  the  testimony:  if  they  speak  not 
according  to  this  word  it  is  because  there  is  no  light  in 
them." 

(The  human  comment  inserted  amid  the  quotations 
from  The  Word,  are  written  with  the  prayer,  and  hope, 
that  they  will  not  in  the  smallest  iota  be  contrary  to  the 
Spirit  and  Purpose  of  The  Written  Word.) 


When  the  most  treacherous  act  ever  committed  by 
human  was  about  to  be  perpetrated — we  read  in  The 
Word: 

"And  Satan  entered  into  Judas." 

May  we  doubt  if  otherwise  Judas  would  have  be- 
trayed The  Lord  of  Glory.  We  therefore  have  testi- 
mony which  cannot  be  questioned  that  Evil  Spirits  can 
enter  the  human  and  energize  the  Human  to  acts  it  would 
otherwise  have  shrunk  from. 

Now  the  testimony  of  THE  LORD  CHRIST  states  dis- 
tinctly that  Satan  is: 

"The  Prince  of  the  Power  of  the  air." 

"The  Prince  of  this  World." 

The  inspired  Apostle's  words  designate  him : 

"The  God  of  This  World." 

The  Word  of  JEHOVAH  to  Ezekiel — lifts  in  a  few 
brief,  but  impressive  words,  the  curtain  of  the  Past,  and 
shows  the  splendor  of  this  Satan  in  the  Far  off  Ages — 
(of  any  human  such  words  could  not  be  uttered — but 


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the  words  indicate  the  Person  who  energized  The  King 
of  Tyrus). 

Thus  saith  The  Lord  God : 

"Thou  sealest  up  the  sum,  full  of  wisdom  and  perfect 
in  beauty.  Thou  hast  been  in  Eden  the  Garden  of  God ; 
every  precious  stone  was  thy  covering,  the  sardius,  topaz, 
and  the  diamond,  the  beryl,  the  onyx  and  the  jasper,  the 
sapphire,  the  emerald,  and  the  carbuncle  and  gold:  the 
workmanship  of  thy  tabrets  and  of  thy  pipes  was  in 
thee;  in  the  day  that  thou  wast  created  they  were  pre- 
pared. Thou  wast  the  Anointed  Cherub  that  covereth: 
and  I  set  thee,  so  that  thou  wast  upon  the  Holy  moun- 
tain of  God ;  thou  hast  walked  up  and  down  in  the  midst' 
of  the  stones  of  fire.  Thou  wast  perfect  in  thy  ways  from 
the  day  that  thou  wast  created,  till  unrighteousness  was 
found  in  thee.  By  the  multitude  of  thy  traffic  they  filled 
the  midst  of  thee  with  violence,  and  thou  hast  sinned: 
therefore  I  have  cast  thee  as  profane  out  of  the  moun- 
tain of  God:  and  I  have  destroyed  thee,  O  covering 
Cherub,  from  the  midst  of  the  stones  of  fire.  Thine 
heart  was  lifted  up  because  of  thy  beauty,  thou  hast 
corrupted  thy  wisdom  by  reason  of  thy  brightness:  I 
have  cast  thee  to  the  ground  I  have  laid  thee  before 
Kings,  that  they  may  behold  Thee !" 

(Therefore  Satan's  sin  was  Pride  that  had  fain  spurred 
him  to  become  equal  with  God.) 

Then  Jehovah  put  on  the  lips  of  Isaiah  the  words : 

"How  art  thou  fallen  from  Heaven,  O  Lucifer,  son 
of  the  morning!  How  art  thou  cut  down  to  the  ground, 
which  did  weaken  the  Nations!  For  thou  hast  said  in 
thine  heart,  I  will  ascend  into  heaven,  I  will  exalt  my 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  155 

throne  above  the  stars  of  God :  I  will  sit  also  upon  the 
mount  of  the  congregation  in  the  sides  of  the  north:  I 
will  ascend  above  the  heights  of  the  clouds ;  I  will  be  like 
the  most  high." 

(Jehovah's  Word  first  introduction  of  Satan  to  human- 
ity is  as  a  spirit  who  surely  could  hardly  descend  more 
meanly,  as  to  crave  the  body  of  a  snake — he  who  was 
once  The  Highest  Created  Intelligence,  with  millions  to 
serve  and  obey  him,  now  enters  the  creature  that  ever 
crawls — a  very  worm  of  the  dust.  Such  the  effects  of 
sin — ever  tending  from  the  highest  nature  to  the  meanest. 
He  comes  to  woman  in  form  of  a  snake — tempts  the 
woman  to  distrust  God  (not  the  mere  eating  of  the  fruit), 
tempts  her  with  the  thought  of  Pride — eat  and  "ye  shall 
be  as  God!"  and  with  this  wild  hope  no  doubt  Adam 
was  also  tempted.  She  by  her  knowledge  of  evil  made 
him,  no  doubt,  curious  to  know  of  this  new  thing.  So, 
therefore,  very  plainly  The  Word  shows — that  Satan  can 
possess  other  creatures  than  himself — and  energize  them 
for  Evil.) 

Now  The  Word  tells  us  plainly  that  Satan  has   a 
mighty  host  in  numbers  willing  to  do  his  evil  commands : 
"The  Devil  and  his  Angels." 
"Wicked  spirits  in  high  places." 
"The  Angels  who  kept  not  their  first  estate." 
"God  spared  not  the  Angels  who  sinned." 
"The  Angels  which  kept  not  their  own  principality  but 
left  their  proper  habitations  He  hath  kept  in  everlasting 
bonds  under  darkness  unto  the  Judgment  of  The  Great 
Day." 

"Loose  the  four  Angels  which  are  bound  in  the  great 


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River  Euphrates — they  were  loosed — the  number  of  the 
army — two  hundred  thousand  thousand." 

"For  our  wrestling  is  not  against  flesh  and  blood,  but 
against  the  principalities,  against  the  powers,  against  the 
World-Rulers  of  this  darkness,  against  the  spiritual 
hosts  of  wickedness  in  the  Heavenly  places." 

"Who  will  persuade  Ahab  that  he  may  go  up  and  fall  ?" 
"And  a  spirit  said,  I  will  persuade  him:"  "Wherewith?" 

"I  will  be  a  lying  spirit  in  the  mouth  of  all  his  proph- 
ets." 

"They  sacrifice  to  Demons  not  to  God." 

"Ye  cannot  drink  the  Cup  of  the  Lord  and  the  Cup 
of  Devils." 

"Ye  cannot  partake  of  the  table  of  the  Lord  and  the 
table  of  Devils." 

"The  things  which  the  Gentiles  sacrifice  they  sacrifice 
to  Devils  and  not  to  God." 

"And  certain  women  which  had  been  healed  of  Evil 
Spirits  and  Infirmities,  Mary  that  was  called  Magdalene 
from  whom  seven  devils  had  gone  out." 

"Thou  dumb  and  deaf  spirit  I  charge  thee,  come  out 
of  him,  and  enter  him  no  more." — "rent  him  sore  and 
came  out  of  him." 

"Suffered  not  the  Devils  to  speak  because  they  knew 
Him." 

"And  the  unclean  spirits  whensoever  they  beheld  Him 
fell  down  before  Him,  and  cried,  saying:  Thou  art  the 
Son  of  God!  And  He  charged  them  much  that  they 
should  not  make  Him  known." 

"If  I  by  the  spirit  of  God  cast  out  devils  then  is  the 
Kingdom  of  God  come  to  you !" 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  157 

"The  unclean  spirit  when  he  is  gone  out  of  the  man, 
passeth  through  waterless  places,  seeking  rest,  and  find- 
eth  it  not.  Then  sayeth  he  I  will  return  into  my  house 
whence  I  came  out,  and  when  he  is  come  he  findeth  it 
empty,  swept  and  garnished.  Then  goeth  he,  and  taketh 
with  him  seven  other  spirits  more  evil  than  himself,  and 
they  enter  in  and  dwell  there :  and  the  last  state  of  that 
man  becometh  worse  than  the  first." 

By  these  citations  it  is  easy  to  see,  if  one  is  not  will- 
fully blind,  the  Word  of  JEHOVAH  in  the  plainest  of  ex- 
pressions, so  "that  he  who  runs  may  read,"  has  pledged 
His  words  to  the  awful  Truth  that :  Evil  Spirits  control 
the  beings  of  men  to  their  everlasting  destruction. 

II 

We  shall  now,  with  very  brief  comment  of  ours  inter- 
spersed, Give  the  Words  of  JEHOVAH  as  to  the  fearful, 
awful  sin  of  any  human  who  would  invite  a  demon  to 
take  possession  of  their  bodies. 

And  without  their  desire  no  demon  can  take  posses- 
sion— they  can  only  enter  when  welcomed  by  the  human. 
GENESIS— "The  Nephilim  were  on  the  Earth  in 
those  days  .  .  .  the  sons  of  God  came  in  unto  the 
daughters  of  men,  and  they  bare  children  to  them — the 
same  were  the  mighty  men  which  were  of  old  the  men 
of  renown."  (See  Jude — 6  verse.) 
"The  wickedness  of  the  Amorites  is  not  yet  full"  (the 
great  sin  of  the  Amorites  was  worshipping  Demons). 
"Wherefore  hast  thou  stolen  my  Gods?"  "And  Laban 
searched  all  the  tent,  but  found  them  not."  (See  2 
Corinthians,  10  ch.,  20  verse.) 


158  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

"And  Jacob  said,  put  away  the  strange  Gods  that  are 
among  you  and  be  you  clean."  "They  gave  to  Jacob  all 
the  strange  Gods"  (idols)  that  were  in  their  hand,  and 
all  the  earrings  which  were  in  their  ears ;  and  Jacob  hid 
them  under  the  oak."  (The  Heathen  women's  earrings 
were  largely  figure  pieces  of  the  Gods  (demons)  they 
worshipped.) 

Pharaoh  .  .  .  called  for  all  the  magicians  of  Egypt — but 
there  were  none  that  could  interpret  "the  dream." 
The  cup  "whereby  he  divineth."  (It  is  noticeable  these 
words  uttered  by  Joseph's  steward — Joseph's  words — 
"Wot  ye  not  that  such  a  man  as  I  can  certainly  divine" — 
but  certainly  without  the  cup  that  Heathens  used  for 
their  divinations.) 

EXODUS:    Pharaoh  also  called  the  wise  men  and  the 
Sorcerers :   "now  the  magicians  of  Egypt  did  also  in  like 
manner  with  their  enchantments — the  rods  became  ser- 
pents: but  Aaron's  rod  swallowed  up  their  rods." 
"And  all  the  waters  in  the  River  were  turned  to  blood." 
"And  the  magicians  did  so  with  their  enchantments." 
"Frogs  came  up  and  covered  the  land  of  Egypt  and  the 
magicians  did  so  with  their  enchantments." 
"All  the  dust  of  the  land  became  lice  throughout  all  the 
land  of  Egypt — And  the  magicians  did  so  with  their  en- 
chantments to  bring  forth  lice — but  they  could  not.  .   .  . 
Then  The  Magicians  said  unto  Pharaoh  This  is  the  fin- 
ger of  God!"     (Here  the  Magicians  who  had  performed 
their  miracles  by  their  scores  of  Gods — Demons — had  to 
acknowledge  their  helplessness  before  Jehovah.) 
(Up  to  this  point  Jehovah  permitted  the  Magicians  to 
perform  miracles,  after  their  failure  they  no  more  were 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  159 

called  upon  by  Pharaoh — more  than  probable  they  ut- 
terly failed  in  the  trying — they  had  to  acknowledge  the 
Supremacy  of  The  Hebrew  God.  Any  of  the  Magicians 
of  the  priestly  order,  by  having  lice  on  them,  were  un- 
clean and  could  not  therefore  sacrifice  to  the  Gods — 
this  no  doubt  prohibiting  public  service  throughout  all 
Egypt.) 

"Against  all  the  Gods  of  Egypt  I  will  execute  Judg- 
ment !" 

"Now  I  know  that  the  Lord  is  greater  than  all  Gods, 
for  in  the  thing  wherein  they  dealt  proudly  He  was 
above  them." 

JEHOVAH  said:  "Thou  shalt  have  no  other  Gods  be- 
fore me!" 

"Thou  shalt  not  suffer  a  Witch  to  Live!"  (Kashaph). 

(This  command  has  been  much  condemned — even  by 
Christian  Ministers — but  The  Law  under  which  the  Is- 
raelites were  governed  by,  was  entirely  different  from 
that  which  governs  a  Christian's  conduct.  It  was  posi- 
tively stated  to  the  People  of  Israel  that  they  were  to  be : 
"A  Peculiar  Treasure  unto  me  above  all  People:  for  all 
the  Earth  is  mine :  And  ye  shall  be  unto  me  a  Kingdom 
of  Priests,  and  an  Holy  Nation."  Hence  the  Jewish  peo- 
ple were  to  be  under  a  pure  Theocracy,  an  example  for 
all  other  Peoples  on  the  Earth.  He  was  simply  to  other 
Nations  Their  Creator,  Their  Preserver ;  and  if  they  de- 
sired to  join  the  Israelites  they  could  become  too  His 
peculiar  People,  incorporated  into  that  Nation.  The 
Jewish  People,  however,  miserably  failed  to  fulfil  their 
high  calling — And  now  in  Christ  Jesus  Salvation  is  of- 
fered to  all  Humanity — we  are  in  an  age  of  Grace  not 


i6o  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

of  Law.  Christians  can  now  condemn  but  not  punish 
a  witch.) 

"He  that  sacrificeth  unto  any  God  save  unto  the  Lord 
only,  he  shall  be  utterly  destroyed." 

"Make  no  mention  of  the  name  of  other  Gods,  neither 
let  it  be  heard  out  of  thy  mouth." 

"Thou  shalt  not  bow  down  to  their  Gods."  (Canani- 
tish.) 

"Nor  serve  them,  nor  do  after  their  works :  but  thou 
shalt  utterly  overthrow,  and  quite  break  down  their 
images." 

"Thou  shalt  make  no  covenant  with  them  nor  with 
their  Gods.  They  shall  not  dwell  in  thy  land  lest  they 
make  thee  Sin  against  Me:  for  if  thou  serve  their  Gods 
it  will  surely  be  a  snare." 

"Up,  make  us  Gods  that  shall  go  before  us !"  Aaron 
received  them  at  their  hand  and  fashioned  it  with  a  grav- 
ing tool  after  he  had  made  it  a  golden  calf:  and  they 
said,  "These  be  thy  Gods,  O  Israel,  which  brought  thee 
up  out  of  the  Land  of  Egypt."  And  when  Aaron  saw  it, 
he  built  an  altar  before  it,  and  Aaron  made  a  proclama- 
tion and  said,  To-morrow  is  a  feast  to  the  Lord  .  .  . 
they  offered  burnt  offerings  and  brought  peace  offer- 
ings." (No  doubt  Aaron  had  in  mind  the  Bull  Apis, 
worshipped  by  the  Egyptians,  when  he  formed  a  calf. 
And  Aaron  in  his  cowardice  before  Moses  said  as  if  a 
miracle  had  been  formed:  "I  cast  it  into  the  fire  and 
there  came  out  this  calf!"  The  People  danced  before 
the  calf  naked — this  practice  they  learned  of  the  Egyp- 
tian, for  during  the  passage  of  the  ship  who  bore  the 
images  of  certain  Gods,  the  inhabitants  along  the  River, 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  161 

the  women  included,  disrobed  themselves,  and  naked, 
danced  as  the  boat  passed  by.  Moses  gave  orders  to  the 
Levites  who  were  especially  set  aside  for  service  of  the 
Tabernacle  to  slay  a  number  of  the  transgressors  and 
three  thousand  men  were  slain.  And  the  Lord  plagued 
the  people  because  they  made  the  Calf.) 

"Take  heed  to  thy  self,  lest  thou  make  a  covenant 
with  the  inhabitants  of  the  land  whither  thou  goest,  lest 
it  be  a  snare  in  the  midst  of  thee:  But  ye  shall  destroy 
their  altars,  break  their  images,  and  cut  down  their 
groves:  For  thou  shalt  worship  no  other  God:  for  the 
Lord  whose  name  is  Jealous,  is  a  Jealous  God!  Lest 
thou  make  a  covenant  with  the  inhabitants  of  the  land, 
and  they  go  a  whoring  after  their  Gods,  and  do  sacrifice 
unto  their  Gods,  and  one  call  thee  and  thou  eat  of  their 
sacrifices:  and  thou  take  of  their  daughters  unto  thy 
sons,  and  their  daughters  go  a  whoring  after  their  Gods, 
and  make  thy  sons  go  a  whoring  after  their  Gods.  Thou 
shalt  make  thee  no  molten  Gods." 

"And  they  shall  no  more  offer  their  sacrifices  unto  devils 
after  whom  they  have  gone  a  whoring !  This  shall  be  a 
statute  for  ever  unto  them  throughout  their  generations." 
"Turn  ye  not  into  idols  nor  make  to  yourselves  molten 
Gods." 

"Neither  shall  ye  use  enchantments,  nor  observe  times." 
"Ye  shall  not  make  any  cuttings  in  your  flesh." 
(The  Priests  of  Baal  in  their  eagerness  to  bring  fire  from 
Baal  in  their  controversy  with  Elijah,  "they  cried  aloud 
and  cut  themselves  after  their  manner  with  knives  and 
lancets  till  the  blood  gushed  out  upon  them."  And  we 
read  in  Zechariah  XIII — -"The  Prophets  and  the  unclean 


162  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

spirit  shall  pass  out  of  the  land  ...  It  shall  come  to 
pass  in  that  day  that  the  Prophets  shall  be  ashamed 
every  one  of  his  visions  .  .  .  neither  shall  they  wear  a 
rough  garment  to  deceive :  but  shall  say,  I  am  no  prophet 
.  .  .  one  shall  say  unto  him :  What  are  these  wounds  in 
thine  hands?  Then  he  shall  answer:  Those  with  which 
I  was  wounded  in  the  house  of  my  friends." 

(Here  let  me  call  attention  how  that  true  Christians, 
with  a  strange  and  most  wonderful  blindness,  and  utter 
misconception  as  to  who  the  speaker,  put  the  words  in 
the  mouth  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ!  The  speaker  is  a 
false  prophet,  not  the  Lord  of  Glory.  No  wonder  that 
Scriptures  are  so  much  misread,  when  such  plain  words 
as  above  are  almost  by  the  Church  Universal  given  as 
a  prophecy  of  Our  Blessed  Lord,  who  surely  was  not 
wounded  in  the  house  of  His  friends — but  his  hands 
nailed  to  the  cross  by  Roman  Soldiers,  suffering  in 
House  of  His  Foes.) 

"Regard  not  them  that  have  familiar  spirits,  neither  seek 
after  wizards  to  be  defiled  by  them." 
"Again  shalt  thou  say  to  the  children  of  Israel — whoso- 
ever be  he  of  the  children  of  Israel  or  of  the  strangers 
that  sojourn  in  Israel,  that  give  it  any  of  his  seed  to 
Moloch;  he  shall  surely  be  put  to  death:  the  people  of 
the  land  shall  stone  him  with  stones.  And  I  will  set  my 
face  against  that  man  and  will  cut  him  off  from  among 
my  people,  because  he  hath  given  of  his  seed  unto  Moloch 
to  defile  my  sanctuary,  and  to  profane  My  Holy  name. 
And  if  the  people  of  the  land  do  anyways  hide  their 
eyes  from  the  man  when  he  giveth  of  his  seed  unto 
Moloch  and  kill  him  not :  Then  I  will  set  my  face  against 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  163 

that  man,  and  against  his  family,  and  will  cut  him  off, 
and  all  that  go  a  whoring  after  him,  to  commit  whore- 
dom with  Moloch  from  among  my  people." 

(We  lately  in  England  had  a  case  somewhat  analogous 
to  this  offering  of  children  to  Moloch.  We  have  one  of 
the  most  famous  scientists — may  we  say  of  the  World, 
going  as  it  were  in  morning,  at  noon,  at  night  to  women 
who  have  familiar  spirits,  and  urging  his  children  to  do 
likewise — thus  offering  his  seed  to  Demons.  And  we 
now  wait  to  see  if  this  to  be  pitied  and  unfortunate  man 
will  be  allowed  in  a  manner  to  guide  the  young  men  un- 
der his  watchcare  in  his  pernicious  ways.  The  Regents 
of  that  school  at  which  he  is  the  head  should  dismiss 
him  from  such  a  high  position.  If  left  there,  no  one  can 
tell  how  far  his  fatal  influence  will  extend  over  England 
and  her  provinces  over  seas.  And  if  the  Regents  fail 
in  their  duty — then  JEHOVAH  will  not  be  blind  to  their 
folly.) 

"The  soul  that  turneth  after  such  as  have  Familiar  Spir- 
its and  after  wizards  to  go  awhoring  after  them.  I  will 
even  sit  My  face  against  that  soul  and  will  cut  him  off 
from  among  his  people." 

"A  man  also  or  woman  that  hath  a  familiar  spirit  or  that 
is  a  wizard  shall  surely  be  put  to  death :  They  shall  stone 
them  with  stones :  their  blood  shall  be  upon  them." 
"You  shall  make  you  no  idols,  neither  shall  ye  rear  you 
a  graven  image,  or  a  pillar,  neither  shall  ye  place  any 
figured  stone  in  your  land  to  bow  down  to  it." 
NUMBERS :   "And  the  people  began  to  commit  whore- 
dom with  the  daughters  of  Moah.    And  they  called  the 
people  unto  the  sacrifices  of  their  Gods;  and  the  people 


164  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

did  eat  and  bowed  down  to  their  Gods."  "Those  who 
died  in  the  plague  were  twenty  and  four  thousand." 
"When  ye  have  passed  over  Jordan  into  the  land  of 
Canaan :  Then  ye  shall  drive  out  all  the  inhabitants  of  the 
land  from  before  you,  and  destroy  all  their  pictures,  and 
destroy  all  their  molten  images,  and  quite  pluck  down 
all  their  high  places :  and  ye  shall  dispossess  the  inhabit- 
ants of  the  land  and  dwell  therein :  for  I  have  given  you 
the  land  to  possess  it."  (We  have  read,  and  heard,  many 
hard  and  wicked  words  against  "Jehovah  of  the  Jews" — 
in  fact  strictly  rebellious  words  uttered  by  so-called  Chris- 
tians, as  they  blasphemously  rebuke  The  Maker  of  Cre- 
ation, The  Maker  and  Owner  of  the  Universe,  as  if  He 
had  not  right  to  the  World  that  He  created :  In  fact,  no 
word  too  bitter  in  their  anger  against  "Jehovah  of  the 
Jews" ;  and  no  words  too  kind  towards  the  unfortunate 
Canaanites.  They  remind  us  of  the  very  eloquent  and 
most  blasphemous  utterance  (the  stubby,  rotund  figure), 
of  the  Bishop  of  Michigan,  who  before  some  five  hun- 
dred students  in  one  of  the  most  "advanced  thought" 
and  "richest  in  this  World's  goods"  university,  waved 
his  hand  (on  whose  finger  glistened,  in  a  mild  imitation 
of  The  Popes,  a  very  large  precious  stone) — he  flip- 
pantly, even  contemptuously  said  of  the  great  fundamen- 
tal doctrines  of  The  Lord  Christ,  "We  cast  such  doc- 
trines to  the  scrap  pile."  The  contemners  of  the  Execu- 
tors of  JEHOVAH'S  Just  Judgments  of  Death  to  the 
Canaanites  Ignore  that  the  tendency  of  Evil  is  ever  down- 
ward to  more  debasing  depths.  The  mind  feeds  on  evil 
until  it  is  rotten  to  the  core.  The  tendency  of  evil  is 
ever  to  entice  others  to  its  subtle,  alluring  but  deadly 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  165 

ways.  Hence  JEHOVAH  who  bore  with  such  people  for 
over  four  hundred  years,  that  we  know  of,  and  they* 
only  waxing  in  wickedness — for  their  Religion  was  one 
of  the  vilest  debauchery — their  life  and  land  were  full 
of  violence.  Hence  JEHOVAH  knew  that  the  inhabitants 
of  the  entire  land  would  corrupt  their  children,  and  chil- 
dren's children  to  deeper  depths  of  corruption — that, 
humanly  speaking,  they  were  past  redemption — so  to  end 
such  and  save  the  then  children,  and  unborn  generations, 
He  gave  commandment  to  Israel  to  utterly  destroy  them. 
Every  Law  of  JEHOVAH  they  had  outraged  contemptu- 
ously, defiantly — and  it  was  JEHOVAH'S  right  to  destroy, 
to  make  an  end  of  wickedness  when  He  wills.  Why 
should  man  have  the  right  to  execute  felons  who  disobey 
their  law,  Earth's  Rulers  the  right  to  slay  Rebels,  and 
shall  The  Lord  alone  be  debarred  from  this  prerogative  ? 
It  would  be  well  for  Christians  especially  to  consider 
prayerfully  this  condemnation  of  JEHOVAH — else,  "hap- 
pily they  may  be  found  righting  against  God.") 
DEUTERONOMY:  "Lest  ye  corrupt  yourselves,  and 
make  you  a  graven  image,  of  the  similitude  of  any  fig- 
ure, the  likeness  of  male  and  female." 
"Take  heed  unto  yourselves,  lest  ye  forget  the  covenant 
of  the  Lord  your  God  which  he  made  with  you,  and 
make  you  a  graven  image,  or  the)  likeness  of  anything 
which  the  Lord  thy  God  had  forbidden  thee." 
"When  thou  shalt  beget  children,  and  children's  children, 
and  ye  shall  have  remained  long  in  the  land,  and  shall 
corrupt  yourselves,  and  make  a  graven  image,  or  the 
likeness  of  anything,  and  shall  do  evil  in  the  sight  of 
The  Lord  thy  God  to  provoke  Him  to  anger:  I  call 


i66  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Heaven  and  Earth  to  witness  against  thee  this  day,  that 
ye  shall  soon  utterly  perish  from  off  the  land  .  .  .  you 
shall  not  prolong  your  days  upon  it,  ye  shall  be  utterly 
destroyed.  And  the  Lord  shall  scatter  you  among  the 
Nations,  and  ye  shall  be  few  in  number  among  the 
Heathen,  whether  The  Lord  shall  lead  you." 

"Ye  shall  not  go  after  other  gods  of  the  gods  of  the 
people  round  about  you." 

"Ye  shall  destroy  their  altars,  and  break  down  their 
images  and  cut  down  their  groves,  and  burn  their  graven 
images  with  fire.  For  thou  art  an  holy  people  unto  the 
Lord  thy  God.  The  Lord  thy  God  had  chosen  thee  to 
be  a  special  people  unto  Himself,  above  all  people  that 
are  on  the  face  of  the  Earth." 

"The  graven  images  of  their  Gods  shall  ye  burn  with 
fire:  thou  shalt  not  desire  the  silver  or  gold  that  is  on 
them,  nor  take  it  unto  thee." 

"Ye  shall  utterly  destroy  all  the  places  wherein  the  Na- 
tions which  ye  shall  posses  served  their  gods,  upon  the 
high  mountains,  and  upon  the  hills,  and  under  every 
green  tree:  and  ye  shall  overthrow  their  altars,  and 
break  their  pillars,  and  burn  their  groves  with  fire;  and 
ye  shall  hew  the  graven  images  of  their  Gods,  and  de- 
stroy the  names  of  them  out  of  that  place." 
"Take  heed  to  thyself  that  thou  be  not  snared  by  fol- 
lowing them  after  that  they  be  destroyed  from  before 
thee;  and  that  thou  inquire  not  after  their  gods,  saying, 
How  did  these  nations  serve  their  Gods?" 
(How  many  people  out  of  curiosity  inquire  of  mediums 
— go  to  their  meetings — alas,  how  many  are  ensnared  by 
the  demons  in  this  manner.  Hence,  the  many  warnings 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  167 

given  to  Israel  to  have  no  communication  with  the  peo- 
ple who  worshipped  strange  gods — who  were,  as  JE- 
HOVAH said  repeatedly,  "such  gods  are  demons.") 
"Thou  shalt  not  do  so  unto  the  Lord  thy  God  for  every 
abomination  to  the  Lord  which  He  hateth  have  they 
done  unto  their  gods,  for  even  their  sons  and  daughters 
they  have  burned  in  the  fire  to  their  gods." 
"If  there  arise  among  you  a  prophet  or  a  dreamer  of 
dreams  and  giveth  thee  a  sign  or  a  wonder,  and  the  sign 
come  to  pass  where  of  he  spake  unto  thee,  saying,  let 
us  go  after  other  gods,  which  thou  hast  not  known,  and 
let  us  serve  them ;  Thou  shalt  not  hearken  unto  the  words 
of  that  prophet  or  that  dreamer  of  dreams  .  .  .  and 
that  prophet  or  dreamer  of  dreams  shall  surely  be  put 
to  death." 

(No  doubt  a  host  of  so-called  mediums  are  base  deceiv- 
ers, but  there  are  also  those  inspired  by  demons,  who 
having  supernatural  powers,  can  give  signs  and  informa- 
tion— reveal  things  only  known  beforehand  to  the  victim 
who  listens ;  and  also  give  shrewd  guesses  as  to  the  hap- 
penings in  the  near  future — for  as  demons  have  the 
experience  of  thousands  of  years  behind  them,  they, 
knowing  the  circumstances  surrounding  the  victim's  life, 
can  by  analogy  give  a  shrewd  guess  as  to  the  near  future 
of  events.  Studying  during  thousands  of  years  hundreds, 
aye  thousands,  of  individuals  they  are  adepts  to  guess 
what  the  human  will  do  under  various  circumstances — 
for  as  St.  Paul  writes,  "We  wrestle  not  with  flesh  and 
blood  but  against  Spiritual  Wickedness  in  high  places." 
The  common  human  then  without  the  Grace  of  Christ  can 


i68  'AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

easily  be  deceived  by,  to  use  a  common  expression,  these 
wily,  hoary  headed  sinners — Demons.) 
"If  thy  brother  the  son  of  thy  mother,  or  thy  son,  or 
thy  daughter,  or  the  wife  of  thy  bosom  or  thy  friend, 
which  is  as  thine  own  soul,  entice  thee  secretly,  saying, 
let  us  go  and  serve  other  gods  .  .  .  thou  shalt  not  con- 
sent unto  him,  nor  hearken  unto  them ;  neither  shall  thine 
eye  pity,  neither  shalt  thou  spare,  neither  shalt  thou  con- 
ceal him:  but  thou  shalt  surely  kill  him;  thy  hand  shall 
be  the  first  upon  him  to  put  him  to  death,  and  afterwards 
the  hand  of  all  the  people." 

(As  we  are  now  under  the  Amnesty  of  Grace — Grace 
to  one  and  all  on  the  Earth,  and  have  been,  since  The 
Christ  shed  His  blood  upon  the  cross,  to  make  possible 
the  salvation  for  all  if  they  believe  in  Him,  and  there  is 
no  difference  between  Jew  and  Gentile  before  God,  Chris- 
tians as  individuals  or  as  a  body,  or  so  called  Christian, 
Nations,  have  no  right  to  slay  anyone  for  their  religious' 
belief.  We  must  remember  that  before  the  cross  all  were 
strictly  under  JEHOVAH'S  Law — and  Israel  were  chosen 
to  be  His  Executors  against  all  who  transgressed  wil- 
fully certain  laws — they  failed  in  their  high  calling — were 
driven  unto  exile,  and  ceased  to  be  His  Executors  for 
Righteousness. ) 

"If  thou  shalt  hear  say  in  one  of  thy  cities  which  the 
Lord  thy  God  had  given  thee  to  dwell:  certain  men,  the 
children  of  Belial  are  gone  out  from  among  you  and  have 
withdrawn  the  inhabitants  of  their  City,  saying,  Let  us 
go  and  serve  other  Gods,  which  ye  have  not  known ;  then 
shalt  thou  inquire,  and  make  search,  and  ask  diligently; 
and  behold  if  it  be  truth,  and  the  thing  certain,  that 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  169 

such  abomination  is  wrought  among  you;  thou  shalt 
surely  smite  the  inhabitants  of  that  City  with  the  edge 
of  the  sword  destroying  it  utterly,  and  all  that  is  therein 
and  the  Cattle  thereof,  with  the  edge  of  the  sword. 
And  thou  shalt  gather  all  the  spoil  of  it  into  the  midst 
of  the  street  thereof,  and  shall  burn  with  fire  the  City 
and  all  the  spoil  thereof  every  whit,  for  the  Lord  thy 
God :  and  it  shall  be  an  heap  for  ever,  it  shall  not  be  built 
again.  And 'there  shall  cleave  naught  of  the  cursed  thing 
to  thy  hand." 

"Man  or  woman  .  .  .  that  hath  gone  and  served  other 
gods  and  worshipped  them,  either  the  sun  or  moon,  or 
any  of  the  host  of  heaven  .  .  .  thou  shalt  bring  forth 
that  man  or  woman  and  stone  them  with  stones." 
"There  shall  not  be  found  among  you  anyone  that 
maketh  his  son  or  his  daughter  to  pass  through  the  fire, 
or  that  useth  divination,  or  an  observer  of  times,  or  an 
enchanter,  or  a  witch,  or  a  charmer,  or  a  consulter  with 
familiar  spirits,  or  a  wizard,  or  a  necromancer.  For  all 
that  do  these  things  are  an  abomination  unto  the  Lord: 
and  because  of  these  abominations  The  Lord  Thy  God 
doth  drive  them  out  from  before  thee.  For  these  Nations 
which  thou  shalt  possess  hearkened  unto  observers  of 
times  and  unto  diviners.  But  of  the  Cities  of  these  peo- 
ple which  the  Lord  thy  God  doth  give  thee  for  an  in- 
heritance, thou  shalt  save  nothing  that  breatheth.  That 
they  teach  you  not  to  do  after  all  their  abominations 
which  they  have  done  unto  their  gods." 
"Cursed  be  the  man  that  maketh  any  graven  or  molten 
image,  and  abomination  unto  the  Lord,  the  work  of  the 
hands  of  the  craftsman,  and  putteth  in  a  secret  place." 


170  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

And  all  the  people  shall  answer  and  say,  "Amen." 
(It  would  be  well  to  study  this  remarkable  prophecy  and 
warning  uttered  some  800  years  before  it  happened.) 
"The  land  ...  is  not  sown,  nor  beareth,  nor  any  grass 
growing  therein.  .  .  .  The  nations  shall  say,  wherefore 
hath  the  Lord  done  thus  unto  this  land  ?  What  meaneth 
the  heat  of  this  great  anger?  .  .  .  For  they  went  and 
served  other  gods  and  worshipped  them.  And  the  anger 
of  the  Lord  was  kindled  against  this  land  .  .  .  and  the 
Lord  rooted  them  out  of  their  land  in  anger,  and  in 
wrath,  and  in  great  indignation  and  cast  them  unto  an- 
other land." 

(And  we  may  add  the  words,  "as  it  is  this  day !"  for  it  is 
now  some  2500  years  ago  that  the  Ten  Tribes,  the  King- 
dom of  Israel  was  destroyed,  its  people  carried  "across 
the  river,"  and  no  man  knoweth  of  them  to  this  day. 
So  we  have  the  common  inquiry  that  none  can  answer 
until  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ  gathers  them  after  His  Re- 
turn to  Jerusalem.  For  it  seems  that  they,  the  ten 
tribes  do  not  pass  under  the  Tribulation  of  Antichrist: 
the  reason  given,  that  they  had  no  voice  in  the  Crucifix- 
ion of  Christ  and  therefore  shall  escape  "The  Day  of 
Jacob's  Trouble.") 

(And  let  not  those  who  inquire  of  Familiar  Spirits  hug 
complacently  to  their  soul  that  they  shall  escape  from 
the  curse  uttered  against  that  sin:  Listen!) 
"Lest  there  should  be  among  you  men  or  women  or 
family,  or  tribe  .  .  .  to  go  and  serve  the  gods  of  these 
nations  .  .  .  and  it  come  to  pass  when  he  heareth  the 
words  of  this  curse,  that  he  bless  himself  in  his  heart, 
saying,  I  shall  have  peace,  tho'  I  walk  in  the  imagination 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  171 

of  my  heart  to  destroy  the  moist  with  the  dry.  The 
Lord  will  not  spare  him,  but  then  the  anger  of  the  Lord 
and  His  jealousy  shall  smoke  against  that  man,  and  all 
the  curses  that  are  written  in  this  book  shall  lie  upon 
him,  and  the  Lord  shall  blot  his  name  from  under 
Heaven." 

"And  the  Lord  said  to  Moses.  Behold,  thou  shalt  sleep 
with  thy  fathers;  and  this  people  will  rise  up,  and  go 
awhoring  after  the  gods  of  the  strangers  of  the  land, 
whether  they  go  to  be  among  them,  and  will  forsake  me, 
and  break  my  covenant  which  I  have  made  with  them. 
And  my  anger  shall  be  kindled  against  them  in  that 
day,  and  I  will  forsake  them,  and  I  will  hide  my  face 
from  them,  and  they  shall  be  devoured  and  many  evils 
and  troubles  shall  befall  them." 

(This  prophecy  was  fulfilled  800  years  afterwards  when 
the  Northern  Kingdom,  the  ten  tribes,  were  carried  away 
captive  and  never  yet,  except  a  scattering  few,  have  they 
returned  to  the  land,  as  they  for  many  years  before  "the 
land  spued  them  out"  had  become  gross  idolaters.) 
(In  the  Song  of  Moses  another  prophecy.) 
"But  Jeshurun  waxed  fat,  and  kicked:  thou  are  waxen 
fat,  thou  art  grown  thick,  thou  art  covered  with  fatness  ; 
then  he  forsook  God  which  made  him,  and  lightly  es- 
teemed the  Rock  of  his  salvation.  They  provoked  Him 
to  jealousy  with,  strange  gods,  with  abominations  pro- 
voked they  Him  to  anger.  They  sacrificed  unto  Devils 
not  to  God;  to  gods  whom  they  knew  not,  to  new  gods 
that  came  newly  up,  whom  you  fathers  feared  not." 
(Surely  Jehovah  piled  up  warnings  upon  warnings,  re- 
iterated again  and  again  His  anger  against  this  sin  of 


172  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

worshipping  Demons — for  in  this  sin  every  law  of  the  ten 
commands  were  broken — of  all  sins  the  worship  of 
Demons  the  most  heinous  in  His  sight.  And  the  remain- 
ing books  of  the  Old  Testament  Record  the  extreme  and 
fatal  folly  of  Israel's  disobeying  JEHOVAH  in  this  par- 
ticular sinning.) 
JOSHUA :  (Almost  the  dying  words  of  Joshua  warn :) 

"That  ye  come  not  among  these  Nations,  these  that 
remain  among  ye :  neither  make  mention  of  the  name  of 
their  gods,  nor  cause  to  swear  by  them  neither  serve 
them,  nor  bow  yourselves  to  them." 

"If  ye  forsake  the  Lord,  and  serve  strange  gods,  then 
He  will  turn  and  do  you  hurt,  and  consume  you." 
JUDGES :  Judges  is  a  book  of  declensions  and  failures. 
In  fact,  taking  the  children  of  Israel's  position  as  a  whole 
the  closing  words  of  Judges  a  sad  commentary — bor- 
dering on  lawlessness,  "Every  man  did  that  which  was 
right  in  his  own  eyes !"  The  children  of  Israel  wilfully 
disobeyed  the  Lord's  command  to  utterly  destroy  certain 
notoriously  wicked  tribes — they  let  them  dwell  with  them 
— mingled  with  them — and  let  them  lead  them  away 
from  JEHOVAH'S  worship  to  the  worship  of  false  gods. 
Now  ancient  idolatry  largely  appealed  to  the  lower  pas- 
sions of  the  human — Lasciviousness  of  the  most  allur- 
ing, to  finally  the  basest,  was  the  snare  Prostitution  put 
forth  in  all  their  ceremonies  as  the  chief  attraction — 
their  images  were  basely  suggestive,  their  dances  mostly 
of  utter  abandonment  to  nakedness — their  temples,  groves 
and  gardens  simply  houses  of  prostitution — and  without 
the  Grace  of  God — there  is  an  attractiveness  about  such 
that  is  not  to  be  ignored. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  173 

And  so  we  meet  so  frequently  in  Judges  the  words:) 
"And  the  children  of  Israel  did  evil  in  the  sight  of  the 
Lord  and  forgot  the  Lord  their  God  and  served  Baalim 
and  the  groves." 

"And  an  angel  of  the  Lord  came  up  from  Gilgal  to 
Bochim,  and  said  I  made  you  to  go  up  out  of  Egypt,  and 
have  brought  you  unto  the  land  which  I  swear  unto  your 
Fathers;  and  I  said:  I  will  never  break  my  covenant 
with  you.  And  ye  shall  make  no  league  with  the  inhabi- 
tants of  this  land :  ye  shall  throw  down  their  altars ;  but 
ye  have  not  obeyed  my  voice:  Why  have  ye  done  this? 
Wherefore  I  also  said,  I  will  not  drive  them  out  before 
you;  but  they  shall  be  as  thorns  in  your  sides,  and  their 
gods  shall  be  a  snare  unto  you." 

"And  the  children  of  Israel  did  evil  in  the  sight  of  The 
Lord  and  served  Baalim  .  .  .  and  followed  other  gods, 
of  the  gods  of  the  people  that  were  round  about  them, 
and  bowed  themselves  unto  them  and  provoked  the  Lord 
to  anger.  And  they  forsook  the  Lord  and  served  Baal 
and  Ashtaroth.  And  the  anger  of  God  was  hot  against 
Israel  and  He  delivered  them  into  the  hands  of  spoilers 
and  spoiled  them,  and  He  sold  them  into  the  hands  of 
their  enemies  round  about,  so  that  they  could  not  any 
longer  stand  before  their  enemies.  Whithersoever  they 
went  out,  the  hand  of  the  Lord  was  against  them  for 
evil  as  the  Lord  had  said  and  as  the  Lord  had  sworn 
unto  them;  and  they  were  greatly  distressed.  Never- 
theless the  Lord  raised  up  judges,  which  delivered  them 
out  of  the  hand  of  those  that  spoiled  them.  And  yet 
they  would  not  hearken  unto  them  but  they  went  awhor- 
ing  after  other  gods  and  bowed  themselves  unto  them." 


174  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

"And  it  came  to  pass  when  the  judge  was  dead  that  they 
returned  and  corrupted  themselves  more  than  their 
fathers  in  following  other  gods  to  serve  them  and  to  bow 
down  unto  them :  they  ceased  not  from  their  doings,  nor 
from  their  stubborn  way." 

Therefore  the  anger  of  the  Lord  was  hot  against  Israel, 
and  He  sold  them  unto  the  hands  of  their  enemies. 
The  children  of  Israel  served  Chushanrishathaom  8  years. 
The  children  of  Israel  served  Eglon  King  of  Moab  18 
years. 

The  children  of  Israel  served  Jabin  King  of  Canaan  20 
years. 

The  children  of  Israel  served  King  of  Midian  7  years. 
The  children  of  Israel  served  The  Philistines  18  years. 
The  children  of  Israel  served  The  Philistines  40  years. 
SAMUEL:    "Now  the  sons  of  Eli  were  sons  of  Belial; 
they  knew  not  the  Lord." 

(So  that  the  very  priesthood  had  turned  to  evil.) 
"Samuel  spake  unto  all  the  house  of  Israel  saying,  if  ye 
do  return  unto  the  Lord  with  all  your  hearts,  then  put 
away  the  strange  gods,  and  Ashtaroth  from  among  you 
and  prepare  your  hearts  unto  the  Lord,  and  serve  Him 
only:  and  He  will  deliver  you  out  of  the  hand  of  the 
Philistines. 

Then  the  children  of  Israel  did  put  away  Baalim  and 
Ashtaroth,  and  served  the  Lord  only." 
"And  when;  Saul  inquired  of  the  Lord,  The  Lord  an- 
swered him  not,  neither  by  dreams,  nor  by  Urim,  nor 
by  prophets.  Then  said  Saul  to  his  servants,  seek  me  a 
woman  that  hath  a  familiar  spirit,  that  I  may  go  and 
inquire  of  her.  And  the  servants  said  to  him,  Behold 


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there  is  a  woman  that  hath  a  familiar  spirit  at  En-dor. 
And  Saul  disguised  himself,  and  put  on  other  raiment, 
and  he  went  and  two  men  with  him,  and  they  came  to 
the  woman  by  night:  And  he  said,  I  pray  thee  divine 
unto  me  by  the  familiar  spirit,  and  bring  me  up,  whom 
I  shall  name  unto  thee.  And  the  woman  said  unto  him, 
Behold,  thou  knowest  what  Saul  hath  done,  how  he 
hath  cut  off  those  that  have  familiar  spirits,  and  the  wiz- 
ards out  of  the  land ;  wherefore  then  layest  thou  a  snare 
for  my  life?  .  .  .  Said  the  woman  whom  shall  I  bring 
up  unto  thee  ?  And  he  said  bring  me  up  Samuel.  And 
when  the  woman  saw  Samuel  she  cried  with  a  loud  voice : 
and  the  woman  spake  to  Saul,  saying,  why  hast  thou 
deceived  me?  For  thou  art  Saul.  And  the  King  said 
unto  her,  Be  not  afraid:  for  what  sawest  thou?  And 
the  woman  said  unto  Saul,  I  saw  gods  ascending  out  of 
the  Earth.  And  he  said  unto  her,  what  form  is  he  of? 
And  she  said,  an  old  man  cometh  up ;  and  he  is  covered 
with  a  mantle.  And  Saul  perceived  that  it  was  Samuel, 
and  he  stooped  with  his  face  to  the  ground  and  bowed 
himself.  And  Samuel  said,  why  hast  thou  disquieted 
me,  to  bring  me  up?  And  Saul  answered,  I  am  sore 
distressed;  for  the  Philistines  make  War  against  me, 
and  God  is  departed  from  me,  and  answereth  me  no  more 
neither  by  prophets  nor  by  dreams:  Therefore  I  have 
called  thee  that  thou  mayest  make  known  to  me  what  I 
shall  do.  Then  said  Samuel,  wherefore  then  dost  thou 
ask  of  me,  seeing  The  Lord  is  departed  from  thee,  and  is 
become  thine  enemy.  Because  thou  obeyest  not  the  voice 
of  the  Lord,  nor  executedst  His  fierce  wrath  upon 


176  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Amelek,  therefore  hath  the  Lord  done  this  thing  unto 
thee  this  day." 

(It  is  very  noticeable  that  when  God  permitted  the  spirit 
of  a  dead  person  to  come  back  from  Hades,  from  the 
dead,  He  did  not  permit  the  familiar  Spirit  to  have  any 
hand  in  the  matter.  This  woman  was  terrified  when 
she  saw  not  the  Familiar  Spirit  who  communicated  with 
her  before  in  her  incarnations,  but  a  figure  of  person  en- 
tirely different.  No  doubt  her  familiar  spirit  whispered 
to  her  who  this  stranger  was — hence  her  cry:  why  hast 
thou  deceived  me?) 

"So  Saul  died  for  his  transgression  which  he  committed 
against  the  Lord,  because  of  thel  Word  of  The  Lord 
which  he  kept  not ;  and  also  that  he  asked  counsel  of  one 
that  had  a  familiar  spirit  to  inquire  thereby,  and  inquired 
not  of  the  Lord:  Therefore  he  slew  him." 
KINGS :  (When  the  Lord  appeared  to  Solomon  He 
warned:) 

"But  if  ye  turn  at  all  from  following  me,  ye  or  your 
children,  and  will  not  keep  my  commandments  and  my 
statutes  which  I  have  set  before  you,  but  go  and  serve 
other  gods,  and  worship  them:  Then  I  will  cut  off 
Israel  out  of  the  land  which  I  have  given  them;  and 
this  house,  which  I  have  hallowed  for  my  name,  will  I 
cast  out  of  my  sight,  and  Israel  shall  be  a  proverb  and 
a  byword  among  all  people." 

"But  King  Solomon  loved  many  strange  women  together 
with  the  daughter  of  Pharaoh,  women  of  the  Moabites, 
Ammonites,  Edomites,  Zidonians  and  Hittites;  of  the 
Nations  concerning  which  the  Lord  said  unto  the  chil- 
dren of  Israel.  Ye  shall  not  go  into  them,  neither  shall 


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they  come  unto  you :  for  surely  they  will  turn  away  your 
heart  after  their  gods  .  .  .  his  wives  turned  away  his 
heart  for  it  came  to  pass  when  Solomon  was  old  that 
his  wives  turned  away  his  heart  after  other  gods.  For 
Solomon  went  after  Ashtoreth  the  goddess  of  the  Zido- 
nians,  and  after  Milcom  the  abomination  of  the  Am- 
monites. Then  did  Solomon  build  a  high  place  for 
Chemosh,  the  abomination  of  Moab  in  the  hill  that  is 
before  Jerusalem,  and,  and  for  Molech  the  abomination 
of  the  children  of  Ammon.  And  likewise  did  he  for 
all  his  strange  wives,  which  burnt  incense  and  sacrificed 
unto  their  gods." 

(Therefore  the  Lord  gave,  after  Solomon's  death,  ten  of 
the  tribes  of  Israel  to  Jeroboam  to  whom  the  prophet 
said:) 

"Thus  saith  the  Lord  the  God  of  Israel,  Behold,  I  will 
rend  the  Kingdom  out  of  the  hand  of  Solomon  and  will 
give  ten  tribes  to  thee :  Because  they  have  forsaken  me, 
and  have  worshipped  Ashtoreth  the  goddess  of  the 
Zidonians,  Chemosh  the  God  of  the  Moabites,  and  Mil- 
com the  god  of  the  children  of  Ammon." 
"And  Jeroboam  said  in  his  heart,  now  shall  the  Kingdom 
return  to  the  house  of  David :  if  the  people  go  up  to  do 
sacrifice  in  the  house  of  the  Lord  at  Jerusalem  then 
shall  the  heart  of  this  people  turn  again  to  their  Lord 
even  unto  Rehoboam  .  .  .  and  they  shall  kill  me.  Where- 
upon the  King  took  counsel  and  made  two  calves  of 
gold,  and  said  unto  them,  it  is  too  much  for  you  to  go 
up  to  Jerusalem:  behold  thy  gods,  O  Israel,  which 
brought  thee  up  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt.  And  he  set 
them  one  in  Beth-el  and  the  other  he  put  in  Dan.  And 


i;8  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

this  thing  became  a  sin:  for  the  people  went  to  worship 
before  the  one,  even  unto  Dan.  And  he  made  houses  of 
high  places,  and  priests  of  the  lowest  of  the  people  which 
were  not  of  the  sons  of  Levi.  In  Beth-el  sacrificing  unto 
the  calves  that  he  had  made,  and  he  placed  in  Beth-el 
the  priests  of  the  high  places  which  he  had  made  .  .  . 
he  offered  upon  the  altar  and  burnt  incense.  He  ordained 
priests  for  the  high  places  and  for  the  Devils." 
(He  won  for  himself  by  thus  turning  the  Nation  from 
JEHOVAH  a  coupling  to  his  name  of  the  awful  infamy, 
"Jeroboam  the  son  of  Nebat  who  made  Israel  to  sin.") 
And  when  Jeroboam  sent  the  queen  to  inquire  of  the 
prophet  Ahijah  in  regard  to  the  sickness  of  his  son 
Abijah — the  prophet  said :  "Come  in  thou  wife  of  Jero- 
boam, why  feignest  thou  thy  self  to  be  another.  Go  tell 
Jeroboam.  Thus  saith  the  Lord  God  of  Israel,  for  as 
much  as  I  exalted  thee,  from  among  the  people,  and 
made  thee  prince  over  my  people  Israel,  and  rent  the 
Kingdom  away  from  David  and  gave  it  to  thee :  and  yet 
thou  hast  not  been  as  my  servant  David  who  kept  my 
commandments  and  who  followed  me  with  all  his  heart,  to 
do  that  only  which  was  right  in  mine  eyes ;  but  hast  done 
evil  above  all  that  were  before  thee :  for  thou  hast  gone 
and  made  thee  other  gods,  and  molten  images  to  provoke 
me  to  anger,  and  hast  cast  me  behind  thy  back :  There- 
fore, behold,  I  will  bring  evil  upon  the  house  of  Jero- 
boam, and  will  cut  off  from  Jeroboam  every  man  child, 
him  that  is  shut  up  and  him  that  is  left  at  large  in  Israel, 
and  will  utterly  sweep  away  the  house  of  Jeroboam,  as 
a  man  sweepeth  away  dung  till  it  be  all  gone.  Him  that 
dieth  of  Jeroboam  in  the  City  shall  the  dogs  eat:  and 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  179 

him  that  dieth  in  the  field  shall  the  fowls  of  the  air  eat : 
for  the  Lord  had  spoken  it.  Arise  thou  therefore,  get 
thee  to  thine  house:  and  when  thy  feet  enter  the  City 
the  child  shall  die." 

"The  Lord  shall  smite  Israel  as  a  reed  is  shaken  in  the 
water ;  and  He  shall  root  up  Israel  out  of  this  good  land 
which  He  gave  to  their  fathers,  and  scatter  them  beyond 
the  River !" 

"And  Jeroboam's  wife  arose,  and  departed,  and  came 
to  Tirzah:  and  when  she  came  to  the  threshold  of  the 
door  the  child  died." 

(This  world-wise-wisdom  has  been  copied  by  the  English 
Government  several  times  in  these  latter  days,  in  that, 
in  India  and  other  places  it  subsidizes  Heathen  Religions 
of  various  kinds,  paying  their  priests  and  keeping  up 
their  temples ;  aye,  and  even  the  Government  chiefs  have 
gone  in  their  pomp  and  splendor  to  honor  heathen  fes- 
tivals, and  some  of  such'  are  very  vile;  the  attributes 
which  they  claim  for  several  of  such  gods  are  fully  as 
vile  as  any  of  the  ancient  Devil  worship  of  old  in  the 
land  of  Canaan.  England  has  been  most  singularly  blest 
of  God  in  the  past — but  for  such  sins  as  countenancing 
and  paying  heathen  priests  JEHOVAH  will  surely  humili- 
ate her  in  some  manner.  And  even  in  another  favored 
country — United  States — our  Presidents  and  Governors 
of  States  ofttimes  in  their  proclamations  of  Thangsgiv- 
ings,  evidently  so  as  not  to  offend  some,  never  mention 
the  name  of  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ — tho'  The  Words 
were  spoken  by  The  Son  of  JEHOVAH  Himself:  "No 
man  can  come  to  the  Father  except  through  me!"  So 
that  no  prayer  is  now  acceptable  to  God  unless  coupled 


i8o  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

with  the  Redeemer's  name.  So  in  these  Days  of  Lati- 
tudinarianism  we  have  a  fair  showing  of  worship  and 
utter  indifference  to  JEHOVAH'S  Words,  and  rank  cow- 
ardice in  so-called  Christian  Nations.  Is  there  no  day 
of  Reckoning — can  JEHOVAH  and  His  Son  Christ  be 
treated  as  outside  of  Earthly  Governments  and  with  care- 
less indifference — we  wot  not!) 

"Judah  did  in  the  sight  of  The  Lord  ...  for  they  also 
built  them  high  places  and  images,  and  groves,  on  every 
high  hill  and  under  every  green  tree.  And  there  were 
also  sodomites  in  the  land :  and  they  did  according  to  all 
the  abominations  of  the  Nations  which  the  Lord  had  cast 
out  before  the  children  of  Israel." 
And  Elijah  said  to  Ahab: 

"Now  therefore  send  and  gather  to  me  all  Israel  unto 
Mount  Carmel,  and  the  prohpets  of  Baal  four  hundred 
and  fifty,  and  the  prophets  of  the  groves  four  hundred 
who  eat  at  Jazebal's  table.  So  Ahab  sent  unto  all  the 
people  of  Israel,  and  gathered  the  prophets  together 
unto  Mount  Carmel.  Elijah  said,  how  long  halt  ye  be- 
tween two  opinions  if  the  Lord  be  God  follow  Him :  but 
of  Baal,  then  follow  him,  I  even  only  remain  a  prophet 
of  the  Lord,  but  Baal's  prophets  are  four  hundred  and 
fifty.  Let  them  therefore  give  us  two  bullocks ;  and  let 
them  choose  one  bullock  for  themselves,  and  cut  it  in 
pieces,  and  lay  it  on  wood,  put  no  fire  under ;  and  I  will 
dress  the  other  bullock,  and  lay  it  on  wood,  and  put  no 
fire  under:  and  call  ye  on  the  name  of  your  gods,  and 
I  will  call  on  the  name  of  the  Lord:  and  the  God  that 
answers  by  fire,  let  him  be  God.  Elijah  said  to  the 
Prophets  of  Baal,  choose  one  bullock,  and  dress  it  first, 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  181 

for  ye  are  many,  and  call  on  the  name  of  your  Gods. 
They  took  the  bullock,  they  dressed  it  and  called  on  the 
name  of  Baal  from  morning  even  until  noon  saying,  O 
Baal,  hear  us ;  they  leaped  upon  the  altar  they  had  made, 
and  they  cried  aloud,  and  cut  themselves  after  their  man- 
ner with  knives  and  lancets,  till  the  blood  gushed  out 
upon  them.  At  noon  Elijah  mocked  them  and  said,  cry 
aloud ;  for  he  is  a  god ;  either  he  is  talking,  or  he  is  pur- 
suing, or  he  is  in  a  journey,  or  peradventure  he  sleepeth, 
and  must  be  awaked.  And  it  came  to  pass  when  mid- 
day was  passed  and  they  prophesied  until  the  time  of  the 
offering  the  evening  sacrifice;  Elijah  said  unto  all  the 
people,  come  near  unto  me.  And  all  the  people  came 
near  unto  him,  and  he  repaired  the  altar  of  the  Lord 
that  was  broken  down.  And  Elijah  took  twelve  stones 
according  to  the  number  of  the  tribes  of  the  sons  of 
Jacob ;  and  with  stones  he  built  an  altar  in  the  name  of 
the  Lord :  and  he  made  a  trench  about  the  altar  as  would 
contain  two  measures  of  seed,  and  he  put  the  wood  in 
order,  and  cut  the  bullock  in  pieces  and  laid  it  on  the 
wrood,  and  said,  fill  four  barrels  with  water  and  pour  it 
on  the  burnt  sacrifice  and  on  the  wood.  And  he  said, 
do  it  the  second  time.  And  they  did  it  the  second  time. 
And  he  said,  do  it  the  third  time.  And  they  did  it  the 
third  time.  And  the  water  ran  round  about  the  altar: 
and  he  filled  the  trench  also  with  water.  And  it  came  to 
pass  at  the  time  of  the  offering  of  evening  sacrifice,  that 
Elijah  the  prophet  came  near,  and  said,  Lord  God  of 
Abraham,  Isaac  and  Jacob  and  of  Israel,  let  it  be  known 
this  day  that  Thou  art  God  in  Israel,  and  that  I  am  Thy 
Servant,  and  that  I  have  done  all  these  things  at  Thy 


182  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Word.  Hear  me,  O  Lord,  hear  me  that  this  people  may 
know  that  Thou  art  the  Lord  God  and  that  thou  hast 
turned  their  hearts  back  to  Thee!  Then  the  fire  of  the 
Lord  fell  and  consumed  the  burnt  sacrifice,  and  the 
wood,  and  the  stones,  and  the  dust  and  licked  up  the 
water  that  was  in  the  trench.  And  when  all  the  people 
saw  it,  they  fell  on  their  faces :  and  they  said,  The  Lord 
He  is  God,  The  Lord  He  is  God !  And  Elijah  said  unto 
them.  Take  the  Prophets  of  Baal;  let  not  one  of  them 
escape.  And  they  took  them:  and  Elijah  brought  them 
down  to  the  brook  Kishon,  and  slew  them  there." 
"Ahab  the  Son  of  Omri  did  evil  in  the  sight  of  the 
Lord  above  all  that  were  before  him  ...  as  if  had 
been  a  light  thing  for  him  to  walk  in  the  sins  of  Jeroboam 
the  son  of  Nebat,  that  he  took  to  wife  Jezebel  the  daugh- 
ter of  Ethbaal  King  of  the  Zidonians  and  went  and 
served  Baal  and  worshipped  him.  And  he  reared  up 
altars  for  Baal  in  the  house  of  Baal,  which  he  had  built 
in  Samaria.  And  Ahab  made  a  grove :  and  Ahab  did 
more  to  provoke  the  Lord  God  of  Israel  to  anger  than 
all  the  Kings  of  Israel  that  were  before  him.  But  there 
was  none  like  unto  Ahab,  which  did  sell  himself  to  work 
wickedness  in  the  sight  of  The  Lord,  when  Jezebel  his, 
wife  stirred  up."  Ahab  said  to  Jehoshaphat,  "Wilt 
thou  go  up  with  me  to  Ramoth-gilead  ?"  Jeho- 
shaphat said  unto  Ahab;  "enquire,  I  pray  thee, 
at  the  word  of  the  Lord  today."  Ahab  gath- 
ered four  hundred  prophets  of  Baal,  who  said;  "Go 
up:  for  the  Lord  shall  deliver  it  unto  the  hand  of  the 
King!"  "But  Jehoshaphat  said,  is  there  not  here  a 
prophet  of  the  Lord  besides,  that  we  may  inquire  of 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  183 

him."  Ahab  answered,  "There  is  Micaiah  .  .  .  but  I 
hate  him ;  for  he  doth  not  prophesy  good  concerning  me 
but  evil."  And  Jehoshaphat  said,  "let  not  the  King  say 
so."  So  Micaiah  was  called.  At  first  the  prophet  was 
ironical,  afterwards  disclosed  a  vision  wonderful: 
"I  saw  The  Lord  sitting  on  His  throne,  and  all  the  host 
of  Heaven  standing  by  Him  on  His  right  hand  and  on 
His  left.  And  the  Lord  said:  who  shall  persuade  Ahab 
that  he  may  go  up  and  fall  at  Ramoth-gilead  ?  And  one 
said  on  this  manner,  and  another  said  on  that  manner. 
And  there  came  forth  a  spirit,  and  stood  before  The 
Lord,  and  said,  I  will  persuade  him !  And  the  Lord  said 
unto  him,  wherewith?  And  he  said,  I  will  go  forth  and 
I  will  be  a  lying  spirit  on  the  mouth  of  all  his  prophets. 
And  He  said,  Thou  shalt  persuade  him,  and  prevail  also ; 
go  forth  and  do  so.  Now  therefore  behold,  the  Lord 
hath  put  a  lying  spirit  in  the  mouth  of  all  these  thy 
prophets,  and  the  Lord  hath  spoken  evil  of  thee.  .  .  . 
The  King  said,  Take  Micaiah  put  him  in  prison  and  feed 
him  with  bread  of  affliction  and  with  water  of  affliction 
until  I  come  in  peace.  And  Micaiah  said,  If  thou  return 
at  all  in  peace,  the  Lord  hath  not  spoken  by  me.  And 
he  said,  Hearken  O  People,  every  one  of  you!" 
And  a  certain  man  drew  a  bow  at  venture  and  smote 
the  King  of  Israel  between  the  joints  of  the  harness; 
and  the  blood  ran  out  of  the  wound  in  the  midst  of  the 
chariot.  So  the  King  died.  And  one  washed  the  chariot 
in  the  pool  of  Samaria,  and  the  dogs  licked  up  the  blood. 
"Ahaziah  sent  messengers,  go,  inquire  of  Baal-zebub  the 
god  of  Ekron  whether  I  shall  recover  of  this  disease,  and 
the  angel  of  the  Lord  said  to  Elijah  the  Tishbite,  arise, 


184  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

go  up  to  meet  the  messengers  of  the  King  of  Samaria, 
and  say  unto  them,  is  it  not  because  there  is  not  a  god  in 
Israel  that  ye  go  to  inquire  of  Baal-zebub  the  god  of 
Ekron,  now  therefore  thus  saith  the  Lord,  thou  shalt  not 
come  down  from  that  bed  on  which  thou  art  gone  up,  but 
shall  surely  die.  So  he  died  according  to  the  word  of  the 
Lord  which  Elijah  had  spoken." 

"And  Ahaz  walked  in  the  ways  of  the  children  of  Israel 
and  made  also  molten  images  of  Baalim,  moreover  he 
burnt  incense  in  the  valley  of  the  son  of  Hinnom  and 
burnt  his  children  in  the  fire  after  abominations  of  the 
heathen  whom  the  Lord  had  cast  out  before  the  children 
of  Israel.  He  sacrificed  also  and  burnt  incense  in  the 
high  places  and  on  the  hills  and  under  every  green  tree. 
Wherefore  the  Lord  His  God  delivered  him  to  his  ene- 
mies." 

"In  the  ninth  year  of  Hoshea  the  King  of  Assyria  took 
Samaria, and  carried  Israel  away  unto  Assyria, and  placed 
them  in  Halah,  and  in  Habor  by  the  river  of  Goran,  and 
in  the  Cities  of  the  Medes.  For  so  it  was  that  the  children 
of  Israel  had  sinned  against  the  Lord  their  God  which 
had  brought  them  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  and  had 
feared  other  gods,  and  had  walked  in  the  statutes  of  the 
heathen,  whom  the  Lord  cast  out  from  before  the  chil- 
dren of  Israel.  .  .  .  The  children  of  Israel  did  secretly 
those  things  that  were  not  right  against  The  Lord  their 
God,  and  they  built  them  high  places  in  all  their  Cities 
from  the  tower  of  the  watchmen  to  the  fenced  City.  And 
they  set  them  up  images  and  groves  in  every  high  hill 
and  under  every  green  tree :  and  there  they  burnt  incense 
in  all  the  high  places,  as  did  the  heathen  whom  the  Lord 


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carried  away  before  them;  and  wrought  wicked  things 
to  provoke  the  Lord  to  anger:  for  they  served  idols 
whereof  The  Lord  had  said  unto  them :  Ye  shall  not  do 
this  thing.  And  they  rejected  His  statutes  and  His  cove- 
nant that  He  made  with  their  fathers,  and  His  testi- 
monies which  He  testified  against  them;  and  they  fol- 
lowed vainly,  and  became  vain,  and  went  after  the 
heathen  that  were  around  about  them  .  .  .  and  made 
molten  images,  even  two  calves,  and  made  a  grove  and 
worshipped  all  the  host  of  Heaven  and  served  Baal.  And 
they  caused  their  sons  and  their  daughters  to  pass  through 
the  fire,  and  used  divination  and  enchantments,  and  sold 
themselves  to  do  evil  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord  to  provoke 
Him  to  anger.  Therefore  the  Lord  was  angry  with  Is- 
rael, and  removed  them  out  of  His  sight.  The  Lord 
rejected  all  the  seed  of  Israel  and  afflicted  them,  and 
delivered  them  unto  the  hand  of  the  spoilers,  until  He 
had  cast  them  out  of  His  sight." 

"Manasseh  did  that  which  was  evil  in  the  sight  of  the 
Lord,  for  he  built  again  the  high  places,  which  Hezekiah 
his  father  destroyed,  and  he  reared  up  altars  for  Baal  and 
made  a  grove  and  worshipped  all  the  host  of  heaven  and 
served  them :  and  he  made  his  sons  pass  through  the  fire, 
and  observed  times,  and  used  enchantments  and  dealt  with 
familiar  spirits  and  wizards,  and  he  set  a  graven  image 
of  the  grove  that  he  had  made  in  the  House,  of  which 
the  Lord  said,  In  this  house  and  in  Jerusalem,  which  I 
have  chosen  out  of  all  tribes  of  Israel,  will  I  put  my 
name  forever,  Manhasseh  seduced  them  to  do  more  evil 
than  did  all  the  Nations  whom  the  Lord  destroyed  be- 
fore the  children  of  Israel." 


i86  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

"Therefore  thus  saith  the  Lord  God  of  Israel  behold  I 
bring  such  evil  upon  Jerusalem  and  Judah  that  whoso- 
ever hear  of  it,  both  his  ears  shall  tingle.  I  will  wipe 
Jerusalem  as  a  man  wipeth  a  dish,  wiping  it,  and  turning 
it  upside  down." 

"Moreover  the  workers  with  familiar  spirits,  and  the  wiz- 
ards and  the  images  and  the  idols,  and  all  the  abomina- 
tions that  were  spied  in  the  land  of  Israel  and  in  Jerusa- 
lem did  Josiah  put  away." 

"Through  the  anger  of  The  Lord  it  came  to  pass  in 
Jerusalem,  and  Judah,  until  he  cast  them  out  of  His 
presence,  that  Zedekiah  rebelled  against  the  King  of 
Babylon.  .  .  .  He  burnt  the  House  of  the  Lord,  and  the 
King's  house,  and  all  the  houses  of  Jerusalem,  and  ever 
great  man's  house  burnt  he  with  fire.  And  he  slew  the 
sons  of  Zedekiah  before  his  eyes,  and  put  out  the  eyes 
of  Zedekiah  and  bound  him  with  fetters  of  brass,  and 
carried  him  to  Babylon." 

The  Psalmist  tells  in  graphic  words  why  the  Israelites 
were  driven  from  their  inheritance : 
"They  did  not  destroy  the  Nations  concerning  whom  the 
Lord  commanded  them." 

(Indeed  Jehovah  bore  long  with  the  ancient  people  of 
Canaan  in  their  worshipping  of  evil  spirits — for  we  know 
that  He  told  Abraham  some  four  hundred  and  fifty  years 
before  He  destroyed  them  by  Israel :  "For  the  iniquity 
of  the  Amorites  is  not  yet  full."  Jehovah  never  destroys 
a  nation  who  sins,  without  giving  them  ample  time  to 
repent — but  when  a  nation  continues  to  despise  Him,  and 
will  not  repent — when  patience  exhausted — and  He  sees 
that  they  will  continue  in  sin — then  it  is  a  blessing  to  de- 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  187 

stroy  them — as  bringing  children  into  the  World  to  be 
sinners  is  more  fatal  than  the  destruction  of  the  to  be 
parents.  And  the  high  critics  may  protest,  and  silly 
Christians  express  their  mauldin  sorrow  for  the  Canaan- 
ites — nevertheless — Jehovah  has  the  right  to  judge  and 
destroy  wicked  persons  and  wicked  Nations.) 
"But  were  mingled  among  the  heathen,  and  learned  their 
works.  And  they  served  their  idols ;  which  were  a  snare 
unto  them.  Yea,  they  sacrificed  their  sons  and  daugh- 
ters unto  Devils." 

(The  Book  of  Job  is  treated  by  those  hostile  to  the  Word 
of  God — as  such  men  as  Carlyle — and  those  Christians 
who  do  not  believe  in  verbal  Inspiration  of  JEHOVAH'S 
words — as  a  Drama — a  fine  piece  of  dramatic  story  tell- 
ing— that  never  man  like  Job  lived.  Yet  who  dare  say 
that  Moses  in  his  forty  years  in  his  exile  did  not  meet 
and  know  such  a  man.  And  indeed  the  contents  of  the 
book  show  that  it  was  written  either  by  Moses,  or  a  con- 
temporary of  his  times,  for  we  find  no  hint  of  the  chil- 
dren of  Israel  in  entire  narrative,  and  some  mention  other- 
wise would  surely  be  made  if  written  subsequent  to  Is- 
rael's wonderful  history — which  history  was  well  known 
to  all  Eastern  Nations.  And  we  would  rather  take  the 
affirmative  of  the  Prophet  Ezekiel  who  lived  closer  to 
Job's  period  than  our  modern  hostile  critics,  who  in  their 
love  for  The  Word  have  disputed  at  one  time  or  the 
other  every  important  statement  therein,  who  arise  up 
early  and  sit  up  late  to  find  flaws  in  JEHOVAH'S  word. 
Hence  when  his  name  is  mentioned — as  one  of  three  most 
notable  men — "Noah,  Daniel  and  Job,"  and  also  an  Apos- 
tle's affirmation,  "of  the  patience  of  Job,"  we  rest  our 


188  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

case  by  fully  accepting  the  testimony  of  three — The 
writer  of  the  Book  of  Job,  The  Prophet  Ezekiel,  and  The 
Apostle  James,  as  ample  evidence  of  the  reality  of  a  man 
called  Job. 

It  is  a  very  common  belief  among  Christians  that  Satan 
cannot  enter  The  Dwelling  Place  of  Jehovah  but  the  in- 
spired writer  of  Job's  sorrows  lifts  up  the  curtain  and 
reveals  to  us  that  at  least  certain  days  Satan  is  permitted 
to  enter  the  presence  of  The  Eternal.  And  JEHOVAH 
calls  Satan's  attention  to  Job :  Satan  answers :  "Doth  Job 
fear  God  for  naught  hast  thou  not  made  a  hedge  about 
him  and  about  his  house,  and  about  all  that  He  hath  on 
every  side?"  Of  this  Satan  was  well  aware,  and  we 
read,  "Angel  of  the  Lord  is  encompassed  round  about 
them  that  fear  Him,"  in  the  old  Testament  record ;  and 
in  the  New  Testament  the  statement  that  The  Lord  is 
near  the  Christian,  so  that  The  Apostle  could  boast,  "I 
am  not  afraid  of  what  man  can  do  to  me."  "Satan  said, 
now  put  forth  thy  hand  and  touch  all  that  he  hath,  and 
he  will  curse  thee  to  thy  face!"  "The  Lord  answered: 
Behold,  all  that  he  hath  is  in  thy  power."  "So  Satan 
went  out  from  the  presence  of  The  Lord."  Immediately 
Satan  commenced  his  deadly  work  The  Sabeans  took  his 
oxen,  and  asses,  and  slew  his  servants.  "The  fire  of  God 
is  fallen  from  Heaven"  (probably  lightning)  burnt  his 
sheep  and  consumed  his  servants.  The  Chaldeans  fell 
upon  the  camels,  carried  them  away,  and  slew  his  serv- 
ants. His  sons  and  his  daughters  were  feasting — but  "a 
great  wind  from  the  wilderness  smote  the  four  corners  of 
the  house,  and  it  fell  upon  the  young  men  and  they  are 
dead."  Now  we  hear  people  say  after  many  a  wind 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  189 

storm,  "The  Lord's  will !"  we  lay  everything  on  the  Lord 
— to  use  a  common  illustration :  We  go  out  and  care- 
less get  wet  in  the  rain,  which  exposure  we  could  have 
avoided — a  bad  cold  the  result :  and  then  the  pious  ejacu- 
lation, "God's  will."  And  so  down  the  list  we  suffer  a 
score  of  ills,  are  sick  by  our  own  neglect  of  common  pre- 
caution. But  it  is  plainly  stated  in  Holy  Writ,  that  men 
are  moved  to  do  evil  deeds  by  Satan — hence  the  raids  on 
Job's  property  by  Sabeans  and  Chaldeans ;  and  it  is  also 
plainly  written  that  Satan  "is  Prince  of  the  power  of  the 
air!"  hence  ofttimes  he  is  permitted  to  send  hurricanes, 
tornadoes,  and  storms — for  it  is  well  to  remember  that 
Jehovah  permits  an  evil,  when  He  does  not  will  such. 
Then  Satan  was  permitted  to  smite  Job,  "with  sore  boils 
from  the  sole  of  his  feet  unto  his  crown."  Sometimes 
Christians  deliberately  sin  against  God's  commandment, 
and  as  they  who  accept  the  gift  of  Eternal  Life  by  accept- 
ing Jesus  Christ  as  their  Saviour  by  Blood  Redemption 
cannot  come  unto  Judgment  for  their  sins  after  death, 
they  suffer  in  this  earth-life  for  such  trespasses — sickness, 
sorrow  sent  on  them.  Hence  when  such  come  one  had 
better  examine  his  conduct  to  see  why  such  come.  In 
fact,  the  Apostle  says,  on  account  of  sin  "some  are  weak, 
some  are  sickly  and  some  have  fallen  on  sleep,"  showing 
even  life  cut  short.  The  words  of  St.  Paul  should  be 
remembered  when  affliction  comes  on  Christians :  "To 
deliver  such  a  one  unto  Satan  for  the  destruction  of  the 
flesh,  that  the  spirit  may  be  saved  in  the  Day  of  the 
Lord  Jesus." 

The  Word  states  plainly  that  now  Satan  is  constantly 
calling  JEHOVAH'S  attention  to  the  sins  of  His  followers : 


190  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

and  demanding  their  punishment — for  we  read  in  The 
Book — which  is  the  only  Book  of  The  Word  of  which 
it  is  said :  "Blessed  is  he  that  readeth  and  they  that  hear 
the  words  of  this  prophecy,  and  keep  those  things  which 
are  written  therein,"  and  more  terrible  still  the  words: 
"If  any  man  shall  add  unto  these  things,  God  shall  add 
unto  him  the  plagues  that  are  written  in  this  book:  If 
any  man  shall  take  away  from  the  words  of  the  book 
of  this  prophecy,  God  shall  take  away  his  part  out 
of  the  book  of  Life,  and  out  of  the  Holy  City."  Now 
no  book  of  the  Bible  so  much  sneered  at,  treated  with  con- 
tempt by  the  impertinent  High-brows  of  the  so-called 
Christian  Colleges  and  Universities ;  and  ignored  by  Min- 
isters in  the  pulpit.  Still  for  all  the  Learned  Powers 
against  it — we  believe  as  we  read :  "And  there  was  War 
in  heaven:  Michael  and  his  angels  fought  against  the 
dragon:  and  the  dragon  fought  and  his  angels  and  pre- 
vailed not:  neither  was  their  place  found  any  more  in 
heaven.  And  the  great  dragon  was  cast  out,  that  old  ser- 
pent, called  the  Devil  and  Satan,  which  deceiveth  the 
whole  World :  he  was  cast  unto  the  Earth,  and  his  angels 
were  cast  out  with  him.  And  I  heard  a  loud  voice  say- 
ing in  heaven,  now  is  come  salvation  and  strength,  and 
the  Kingdom  of  our  God,  and  the  power  of  his  Christ: 
for  the  accuser  of  our  brethren  is  cast  down,  which  ac- 
cused them  before  our  God  day  and  night."  And  so 
we  see  the  truthfulness  of  the  narrative  of  the  book  of 
Job  fully  sustained  by  other  scripture.  And  thanks  be 
to  JEHOVAH — we  have  also  an  advocate :  "But  He,  when 
he  had  offered  one  sacrifice  for  sins  forever,  sat  down 
on  the  right  hand  of  God  ...  for  by  one  offering  He 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  191 

hath  perfected  for  ever  them  that  are  sanctified.  Where- 
fore He  is  able  also  to  save  them  to  the  uttermost  that 
come  unto  God  by  Him,  seeing  He  ever  liveth  to  make 
intercession  for  them.  How  much  more  shall  the  blood 
of  Christ  who  through  the  Eternal  Spirit  offered  Himself 
without  spot  to  God." 

To-day  we  know  the  accuser  is  ever  bringing  up  our  sins 
to  God  and  asking  for  punishment — but  we  have  a 
Blessed  Advocate  who  is  our  substitute,  and  therefore 
while  we  may,  and  will  suffer  in  Earth-Life  we  know  we 
are  saved  by  Blood  of  Christ  with  an  Eternal  Salvation.) 
ISAIAH'S  testimony  against  the  children  of  Israel : 
"Are  soothsayers  like  the  Philistines,  and  they  please 
themselves  in  the  children  of  strangers ;  their  land 
is  also  full  of  idols ;  they  worship  the  work  of  their  own 
%  hands,  that  which  their  own  ringers  had  made.  And  the 
mean  man  boweth  down,  and  the  great  man  humbleth 
himself ;  therefore  forgive  them  not." 
"And  when  they  shall  say  unto  you,  seek  unto  them  that 
have  familiar  spirits  and  unto  wizards,  that  peep  and 
mutter:  Should  not  a  people  seek  unto  their  God?  for 
the  living  to  the  dead?  To  the  Law  and  to  the  Testi- 
mony: if  they  speak  not  according  to  this  word,  it  is 
because  there  is  no  light  in  them."  The  Assyrian  said: 
As  my  hand  hath  founded  the  kingdom  of  the  idols,  and 
whose  graven  images  did  excel  them  of  Jerusalem  and  of 
Samaria;  shall  I  not,  as  I  have  done  unto  Samaria  and 
her  idols,  so  do  to  Jerusalem  and  her  idols  ?" 
"How  art  thou  fallen  from  Heaven,  O  Lucifer,  son  of 
the  morning !  how  art  thou  cut  down  to  the  ground,  which 
did  weaken  the  Nations!  For  thou  hast  said  in  thine 


I92  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

heart,  I  will  ascend  into  heaven,  I  will  exalt  my  throne 
above  the  stars  of  God:  I  will  sit  also  upon  the  mount 
of  the  congregation  in  the  sides  of  the  north:  I  will  as- 
cend above  the  heights  of  the  clouds;  I  will  be  like  the 
Most  High." 

(This  was  Satan's  ambition  at  first — and  at  the  end  of 
this  age  will  again  make  another  battle  against  JEHOVAH 
and  His  CHRIST.) 

"And  the  spirit  of  Egypt  shall  fail  in  the  midst  thereof ; 
and  I  will  destroy  the  counsel  thereof;  and  they  shall 
seek  to  the  idols,  and  the  charmers  and  to  them  that  have 
familiar  spirits,  and  to  the  wizards." 
"And  it  shall  come  to  pass  in  that  day  that  The  Lord 
shall  punish  the  host  of  the  high  ones  that  are  on  high 
and  the  kings  of  the  Earth  upon  the  Earth.  And  they 
shall  be  gathered  together  as  prisoners  are  gathered  in 
the  pit." 

"And  thou  shalt  be  brought  down  and  shall  speak  out  of 
the  ground,  and  thy  speech  shall  be  low  out  of  the  dust, 
and  thy  voice  shall  be  as  of  one  that  hath  a  familiar 
Spirit." 

"Ye  shall  defile  also  the  covering  of  thy  graven  images 
of  silver,  and  the  ornament  of  thy  molten  images  of  gold : 
thou  shalt  cast  them  away  as  a  menstruous  cloth." 
"Desolation  shall  come  up  on  thee  suddenly  which  thou 
shalt  not  know.  Stand  now  with  thy  enchantments,  and 
with  the  multitude  of  thy  sorceries  wherein  thou  has 
labored  from  thy  youth:  if  so  be  thou  shalt  be  able  to 
profit,  if  so  be  thou  mayest  prevail.  Thou  art  wearied 
in  the  multitude  of  thy  counsels.  Let  now  the  astrol- 
ogers, the  stargazers,  the  monthly  prognosticators,  stand 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  193 

up,  and  save  thee  from  these  things  that  shall  come  upon 
thee." 

JEREMIAH :  "Therefore  hearken  not  ye  to  your  proph- 
ets, nor  to  your  diviners,  nor  to  your  dreamers,  nor  to 
you  enchanters,  nor  to  your  sorcerers  .  .  .  for  they 
prophecy  a  lie  unto  you." 

'Then  all  the  men  which  knew  that  their  wives  had 
burned  incense  unto  other  gods  and  all  the  women  that 
stood  by,  a  great  multitude,  even  all  the  people  that  dwelt 
in  the  land  of  Egypt  in  Pathros  answered  Jeremiah:" 
(These  were  the  children  of  Israel  who  had  fled  to  Egypt 
in  spite  of  the  warnings  of  Jehovah.) 
"We  will  not  hearken  unto  thee.  .  .  .  But  we  will  cer- 
tainly do  to  burn  incense  unto  the  queen  of  heaven,  arid 
to  pour  out  drink  offerings  unto  her,  as  we  have  done 
.  .  .  for  then  we  had  plenty,  and  were  well  off,  and  saw 
no  evil.  But  since  we  left  off  to  burn  incense  to  the 
queen  of  heaven,  and  to  pour  out  drink  offerings  unto 
her,  we  have  wanted  all  things,  and  have  been  consumed 
by  the  sword  and  by  the  famine.  And  when  we  burned 
incense  to  the  queen  of  heaven  and  poured  out  drink  of- 
ferings unto  her,  did  we  make  her  cakes  to  worship  her, 
and  pour  out  drink  offerings  unto  her,  without  our  men  ?" 
(From  the  closing  words  it  would  seem  that  the  Jewish 
women  were  the  speakers  and  had  urged  the  men  on  in 
defiance  of  JEHOVAH.  Is  it  not  remarkable  that  most 
of  the  leaders  of  this  latter  day,  familiar  spirits  who  are 
mediums,  are  women?  The  demons  know  that  their  in- 
fluence to  expand  their  doctrine  more  subtle  than  that 
of  men.) 
(Then  Jeremiah  answered:) 


194  'AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

"Thus  saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts,  the  God  of  Israel,  saying: 
ye  and  your  wives  have  both  spoken  with  your  mouths, 
and  fulfilled  with  your  hand,  saying,  we  will  surely  per- 
form our  vows  that  we  have  vowed  to  burn  incense 
to  the  queen  of  heaven  and  to  pour  out  drink  offerings 
unto  her:  ye  will  surely  accomplish  your  vows,  and 
surely  perform  your  vows.  Therefore  hear  ye  the  word 
of  the  Lord,  all  Judah  that  dwell  in  the  land  of  Egypt. 
Behold  I  have  sworn  by  my  great  name,  saith  the  Lord, 
that  my  name  shall  be  no  more  named  in  the  mouth  of 
any  man  of  Judah  in  all  the  land  of  Judah  in  all  the  land 
of  Egypt,  saying,  The  Lord  God  liveth.  Behold,  I  will 
watch  over  them  for  evil,  and  not  for  good,  and  all  the 
men  of  Judah  that  are  in  the  land  of  Egypt  shall  be  con- 
sumed by  the  sword,  and  by  famine,  until  there  be  an 
end  of  them." 

EZEKIEL:  "He  said  unto  me  go  in  and  behold  the 
wicked  abominations  that  they  do  here.  So  I  went  in 
and  saw,  and  behold  every  form  of  creeping  things  and 
abominable  beasts,  and  all  the  idols  of  the  house  of  Is- 
rael, portrayed  upon  the  wall  round  about.  And  there 
stood  before  them  seventy  men  of  Israel  .  .  .  every  man 
with  his  censer  in  his  hand :  and  a  thick  cloud  of  incense 
went  up." 

"Then  he  brought  me  to  the  door  of  the  gate  of  the 
Lord's  house  which  was  towards  the  North:  and,  be- 
hold, there  sat  women  weeping  for  Tammuz !  Then  said 
He  unto  me,  hast  thou  seen  this  O  Son  of  Man?  Turn 
thee  yet  again,  and  thou  shalt  see  greater  abominations 
than  these.  And  be  brought  me  into  the  inner  court  of 
the  Lord's  House,  and,  behold  at  the  door  of  the  tem- 
ple of  the  Lord,  between  the  porch  and  the  altar,  were 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  195 

about  five  and  twenty  men  with  their  backs  towards  the 
temple  of  the  Lord,  their  faces  towards  the  East;  and 
they  worshipped  the  sun  towards  the  East." 
"Then  he  said  unto  me.  ...  Is  it  a  light  thing  to  the 
house  of  Judah  that  they  commit  the  abominations  which 
they  commit  here?  .  .  .  Therefore  will  I  also  deal  in 
fury:  mine  eyes  shall  not  spare,  neither  will  I  pity;  and 
though  they  cry  in  mine  ears  with  a  loud  voice,  yet  will 
I  not  hear  them." 

"O  Israel,  thy  prophets  are  like  the  foxes  in  the  deserts. 
They  have  seen  vanity  and  lying  divination,  saying,  The 
Lord  saith :  and  the  Lord  hath  not  sent  them :  and  they 
have  made  others  to  hope  that  they  would  confirm  the 
word.  Likewise,  thou  son  of  man,  set  thy  face  against 
the  daughters  of  thy  people.  Thus  said  the  Lord !  Woe 
to  the  women  that  sew  pillows  to  all  armholes  and  make 
kerchiefs  upon  the  head  of  every  statue  to  hunt  souls — 
Therefore  ye  shall  see  no  more  vanity,  nor  divine 
divinations." 

MICAH :  "And  it  shall  come  to  pass  in  that  day.  .  .  . 
I  will  cut  off  witchcrafts  out  of  thine  hand;  and  thou 
shalt  have  no  more  soothsayers." 

ZEPHANIAH:  "I  will  cut  off  the  remnant  of  Baal 
from  this  place,  and  the  name  of  the  Chemarim  with 
the  priests,  and  them  that  worship  the  host  of  heaven 
upon  the  housetops;  and  them  that  worship  and  that 
swear  by  the  Lord,  and  that  swear  by  Malcham." 
ZECHARIAH :  "And  it  shall  come  to  pass  in  that  day, 
saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts,  that  I  will  cut  off  the  names 
of  the  idols  out  of  the  land,  and  they  shall  be  no  more  re- 
membered: and  I  will  cause  the  prophets  and  unclean 


196  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

spirits  to  pass  out  of  the  land.  And  it  shall  come  to  pass 
that  when  any  yet  prophecy,  then  his  father  and  his 
mother  that  begat  him  shall  say  unto  him,  Thou  shalt 
not  live :  for  thou  speakest  lies  in  the  name  of  the  Lord : 
and  his  father  and  mother  that  begot  him  that  shall  thrust 
him  through  when  he  prophesieth.  And  it  shall  come  to 
pass  in  that  day,  that  the  prophets  shall  be  ashamed 
every  one  in  his  vision,  when  he  hath  prophesied :  neither 
shall  they  wear  a  rough  coat  to  deceive.  But  he  shall 
say,  I  am  no  prophet,  I  am  a  husbandman;  for  man 
taught  me  to  keep  cattle  from  my  youth.  And  shall  say, 
what  are  these  wounds  in  thine  hands?  Then  he  shall 
answer.  Those  with  which  I  was  wounded  in  the  house 
of  my  friends."  (It  must  be  remembered  in  certain  cere- 
monies in  worshipping  Baal  the  priest  cut  themselves 
with  knives.) 

MALACHI:  "And  I  will  come  near  to  you  to  judg- 
ment; and  I  will  be  a  swift  witness  against  the  sor- 
cerers." 

(Almost,  with  the  last  few  lines,  the  words  of  JEHOVAH 
in  the  old  Testament  close.  And  surely  the  whole  trend 
of  the  Word  shows  the  hatred  of  JEHOVAH  against — 
Familiar  Spirits  and  dthers  who  profess  to  bring  up 
messages  from  the  dead:  and  surely  the  curse  of 
JEHOVAH  is  on  those  who  in  life  continue  to  call  on  them 
— for  JEHOVAH  in  unmistakable  language  proclaims  that 
all  such  Deceivers,  familiar  spirits — are  Devils.) 

Ill 

(As  we  turn  to  the  New  Testament  we  have  unanswer- 
able evidence  that  Devils  can  enter  the  human — that 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  197 

demons  are  ever  trying  to  possess  the  bodies  and  souls 
of  men.  The  Human  Nature  of  Christ  was  most  surely 
tempted  by  Satan  himself — we  have  some  brazen  faced 
ministers  who  ignore  and  contradict  this,  but  woe  unto 
such  men — for  they  boldly  contradict  the  Scriptures  of 
Truth.  We  may  be  wrong  in  our  conception,  but  our 
opinion  is,  that  if  ever  the  Godhead,  the  Spirit  of  Christ 
— which  made  Jesus — Christ  Jesus,  The  Eternal  Son  of 
Jehovah — was  dormant  in  the  man  Jesus,  it  was  in  the 
Temptations  of  the  Wilderness.  Here  the  second  Adam 
was  to  be  tried — if  the  Spirit  of  Christ  controlled  Him 
then — the  temptation  could  not  be  a  real  one — this 
wilderness  temptation  (we  hold)  to  be  with  the  actual 
human  part  of  the  Divine  One — for  He  was  Divine  at 
the  moment  Mary  first  conceived  him. 
Now  let  the  conception  be  as  it  flashes  to  the  mind :  we 
see  in  the  weary  wilderness  of  rock  and  stone — a  gaunt, 
hagged,  blood  shot  eyes,  parched  tongue,  weak  with  fast- 
ing man  wandering  around,  almost  aimless,  with  tired 
feet.  Suddenly  before  His  face  stands  a  figure,  where 
had  he  come  from,  was  he  of  mortal  flesh  or  a  Being 
from  the  Universe  not  of  Earth.  Now,  perchance,  Satan 
stood  before  him  in  bright  apparel — for  St.  Paul  tells  us 
Satan  ofttimes  represents  himself  as  an  angel  of  Light — 
our  idea  that  Jesus  did  not  know  Satan — could  not  tell 
but  that  the  Angel  of  God  stood  before  him,  for  we  must 
remember  we  are  told  that  he  was  forty  days  and  forty 
nights  tempted.  How  did  he  know  but  that  this  was  a 
messenger  from  Heaven  who  was  sent,  and  that  His 
Temptations  were  over — so  that  if  the  Messenger's  face 
showed  compassion  the  words  not  out  of  the  way:  It 


198  'AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

was  as  if  the  Messenger  wanted  to  make  sure  that  the 
right  person  stood  before  him — hence  the  inquiry :  "If 
you  be  the  Son  of  God  command  that  these  stones  to  be 
made  bread  I"  But  as  the  person  did  not  state  whence 
he  came — a  challenge  may  have  been  raised  in  the  mind, 
hence  the  answer,  "Man  shall  not  live  by  bread  alone, 
but  by  every  word  that  proceeded  out  of  the  mouth  of 
God  I"  As  much  as  to  state,  declare  from  whence  thou 
art. 

Then  Satan  took  Him  and  sitteth  him  on  a  pinnacle  of 
the  temple.  Perchance,  this  was  the  day  of  one  of  the 
Great  Feasts — when  we  are  told  some  two  to  three  mil- 
lion of  Jewish  people  from  Europe,  Asia  and  Africa 
usually  came  up  to  celebrate.  Therefore,  at  the  morn- 
ing or  evening  Oblation  He  would  have  seen  the  Temple 
in  all  its  glory  and  splendor,  the  Courts  crowded,  the 
multitude  filling  the  surrounding  streets,  and  even  watch- 
ing from  Mount  Olives,  surely  then  to  gain  immediate 
recognition  as  King  He  could  have  done  no  better,  and 
easier  way  than  listen  to  the  words:  "If  thou  be  the 
Son  of  God,  cast  thyself  down  for  it  is  written,  He  shall 
give  His  Angels  charge  concerning  thee,  and  in  their 
hands  they  shall  bear  thee  up,  least  at  any  time  thou  dash 
thy  foot  against  a  stone." 

We  know  that  the  human  Jesus  was  well  versed  and 
knew  the  Old  Testament  by  heart — hence  in  Satan's 
quoting  from  the  Psalm — He  knew  the  words  were  cor- 
rect and  true — but  also  knowing  the  prophecy  of  Isaiah 
of  The  Suffering  One,  He  was  well  aware  He  was  to  be 
the  Substitute  for  sin  before  He  could  be  King — so  the 
answer:  "Thou  shalt  not  tempt  the  Lord  Thy  God." 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  199 

"Then  Satan  taketh  up  to  an  exceeding  high  mountain 
and  showeth  him  all  the  Kingdoms  of  the  World  and  the 
glory  of  them."  Now  Jesus,  who  had  from  His  constant 
study  of  The  Scriptures  already  a  conception  of  Earthly 
Glory — that  the  world  would  be  His  when  God  willed, 
we  think  was  not  moved  for  one  instant  by  the'  splendor 
of  Rome,  Egypt,  and  other  places  spread  before  Him — 
but  here,  it  would  seem  to  us,  the  temptation — He  looked 
not  at  the  marble  palaces  but  at  the  hovels  of  the  poor ; 
He  cared  not  for  the  feastings  of  the  rich,  but  saw  the 
half  starved  people;  He  saw  not  the  Master — but  the 
miserable  slaves  who  knew  not  if  the  wrath  of  the  mas- 
ter would  slay  at  any  moment ;  He  heeded  not  the 
dancing,  the  laughter,  the  merry  making — He  saw  the 
sickness,  the  want,  the  misery,  the  bitter  crying,  the  great 
sorrow  of  the  World — and  He,  He,  could  change  it  all 
in  an  instant.  Not  the  weary  waiting  of  Century  after 
Century — with  humanity  wretched  and  miserable,  sick 
and  weary  of  crying,  waiting  in  vain  for  the  Deliverer. 
Hence  the  temptation  to  his  tender,  compassionate  heart 
— "all  these  things  I  will  give  thee,  if  Thou  wilt  fall  down 
and  worship  me!"  Then  the  man  Jesus  knew  who  had 
been  His  companion  and  exclaimed  in  contempt:  "Get 
thee  hence,  Satan:  for  it  is  written,  Thou  shalt  worship 
the  Lord  Thy  God  and  Him  only  shalt  thou  serve.") 
(So  we  know  that  Satan  can  tempt  men  to  sin.) 
(Now  after  He  entered  His  ministry — one  of  the  first* 
miracles  recorded,  shows  that  it  is  an  awful  fact  that 
men  can  be  possessed  with  Devils:  we  read.)  "There 
met  Him  two  possessed  with  devils,  coming  out  of  the 
tombs  exceeding  fierce,  so  that  no  man  might  pass  that 


200  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

way.  And,  behold  they  cried  out  saying,  what  have  we 
to  do  with  Thee,  Jesus,  Thou  Son  of  God?  Art  Thou 
come  to  torment  us  before  the  time."  The  Devils  said : 
"If  thou  cast  us  out,  suffer  us  to  go  unto  the  herd  of 
swine.  And  He  said  unto  them,  GO !"  (Here  we  see 
how  the  unclad  ones,  as  demons  are,  want  some  living 
habitation — and  if  they  cannot  possess  the  human  glad  to 
enter  about  one  of  the  filthiest  animals  in  creation.) 
"As  they  went  out,  behold,  they  brought  to  him  a  dumb 
man  possessed  with  a  Devil,  and  when  the  devil  was  cast 
out  the  dumb  spake."  (Fulfilling  the  promise  "He  heal- 
eth  all  our  diseases — when  Christ  cured  a  man  He  cured 
him  every  whit.) 

"And  when  HE  had  called  unto  HIM  His  twelve  disci- 
ples, He  gave  them  power  against  unclean  spirits,  to  cast 
them  out." 

"Then  was  brought  unto  Him  one  possessed  with  a  devil, 
blind  and  dumb :  and  He  healed  him  in  so  much  the  blind 
and  dumb  both  spoke  and  saw."  "But  when  the  Phari- 
sees heard  it,  they  said,  This  fellow  doth  not  cast  out 
devils,  but  by  Beelzebub  the  prince  of  the  Devils." 
(So  that  we  know  the  Lord  Jesus  was  closely  watched, 
and  if  anything  spurious  about  His  miracles  curing  peo- 
ple possessed  with  demons  He  would  be  detected,  and 
shown  up  as  a  fraud.) 

(And  now  comes  a  saying  of  the  Lord  Jesus  showing 
that  demons  or  devils  do  not  wish  to  be  unclad  spir- 
its, they  desire  covering  of  flesh  of  some  kind,  and  they 
are  also  companionable.) 

"When  the  unclean  spirit  is  gone  out  of  a  man,  he  walk- 
eth  through  dry  places,  seeking  rest,  and  finding  none. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  201 

Then  he  saith,  I  will  return  into  my  house  from  whence 
I  came  out;  and  when  he  is  come,  he  findeth  it  empty, 
swept  and  garnished.  Then  goeth  he,  and  taketh  with 
himself  seven  other  spirits  more  wicked  than  himself, 
and  they  enter  in  and  dwell  there:  and  the  last  state  of 
that  man  is  worse  than  at  first." 

(These  words  of  the  Lord  Jesus  describe  what  shall 
happen  Israel  in  the  last  days,  they  are  now  singularly 
free  of  idolatry  and  devil  worship,  but  the  Scriptures 
tell  of  a  time  when  they  will  again  go  back  to  courting 
of  demons,  for  at  the  closing  days  of  Gentile  Times,  the 
Powers  of  Evil  are  permitted  more  freedom  and  power 
than  ever  before ;  we  then  will  see  the  children  of  Israel, 
some  gathered  to  Palestine  and  evidently  (we  judge  by 
inference  speaking  not  dogmatically)  demon  worship 
again  one  of  the  National  Sins — such  may  be  the  cause 
of  the  Great  Tribulation — the  day  of  Jacob's  trouble — 
when  two-thirds  of  the  people  of  the  land  shall  perish.) 
"And  behold  a  woman  of  Canaan  came  out  of  the  same 
coasts  and  cried  unto  him  saying,  Have  mercy  on  me  O 
Lord,  thou  son  of  David;  my  daughter  is  grievously 
vexed  with  a  devil."  ...  At  first  he  seemingly  refused, 
but  His  tender  heart  went  out  to  her.  "O  Woman,  great 
is  thy  faith ;  be  it  unto  thee  even  as  thou  wilt.  And  her 
daughter  was  made  whole  from  that  very  hour." 
"There  came  to  Him  a  certain  man,  kneeling  down  to 
Him,  and  saying,  Lord,  have  mercy  on  my  son :  for  he  is 
a  lunatic  and  sore  vexed ;  for  ofttimes  he  falleth  into  the 
fire,  and  oft  into  the  water.  And  I  brought  him  to 
thy  disciples  and  they  could  not  cure  him."  "And  Jesus 
rebuked  the  Devil;  and  he  departed  out  of  him;  and  the 


202  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

child  was  cured  from  that  very  hour."  The  disciples 
asked:  "Why  could  not  we  cast  him  out?  Because  of 
your  unbelief."  And  it  is  added  elsewhere :  "This  kind 
can  come  forth  by  nothing,  but  by  prayer  and  fasting." 
(This  supports  what  is  set  forth  in  the  Epistles — that 
there  are  grades  among  the  fallen  spirits — some  who 
reign  and  rule  over  what  one  may  call  the  common 
herd.) 

(That  the  familiar  spirit  allows  its  victim  to  go  to  the 
house  set  aside  for  prayer  is  seen  by  the  following:) 
"And  there  was  in  their  synagogue  a  man  with  an  un- 
clean spirit ;  and  he  cried  out,  saying,  Let  us  alone :  what 
have  we  to  do  with  thee,  thou  Jesus  of  Nazareth?  Art 
thou  come  to  destroy  us?  I  know  thee  who  thou  art 
The  Holy  One  of  God.  And  Jesus  rebuked,  saying,  hold 
thy  peace  and  come  out  of  him.  And  when  the  unclean 
spirit  had  torn  him  and  cried  with  a  loud  voice,  he  came 
out  of  him." 

"And  He  healed  many  that  were  sick  of  divers  diseases, 
and  cast  out  many  devils :  and  suffered  not  the  devils  to 
speak,  because  they  knew  Him." 

"And  unclean  spirits,  when  they  saw  Him,  fell  down  be- 
fore Him,  and  cried,  saying,  Thou  art  the  Son  of  God. 
And  He  straightly  charged  them  that  they  should  not 
make  Him  known." 
(And  here  the  unpardonable  sin:) 

"Verily  I  say  unto  you,  all  sins  shall  be  forgiven  unto 
the  sons  of  men  and  blasphemies  wherewith  soever  they 
shall  blaspheme.  But  he  that  shall  blaspheme  against 
the  Holy  Ghost  hath  never  forgiveness,  but  is  in  danger 
of  Eternal  Damnation. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  203 

Because  they  said,  He  hath  an  unclean  spirit." 
"And  these  are  they  by  the  wayside,  where  the  word  is 
sown ;  but  when  they  have  heard,  Satan  cometh  immedi- 
ately and  taketh  away  the  word  that  was  sown  in  their 
hearts." 

"There  met  Him  out  of  the  tombs  a  man  with  an  un- 
clean spirit,  who  had  his  dwelling  among  the  tombs ;  and 
no  man  could  bind  him,  no,  not  with  chains ;  because 
that  he  had  been  often  bound  with  fetters  and  chains  had 
been  plucked  asunder  by  him,  and  the  fetters  broken  in 
pieces;  neither  could  any  man  tame  him.  And  always 
night  and  day,  he  was  in  the  mountains  and  in  the  tombs, 
crying  and  cutting  himself  with  stones.  But  when  he 
saw  Jesus  a  far  off,  he  ran  and  worshipped  Him,  and 
cried  with  a  loud  voice,  and  said,  what  have  I  to  do  with' 
Thee,  Jesus  Thou  Son  of  the  most  High  God?  I  ad- 
jure thee  by  God,  that  Thou  torment  me  not.  For  HE 
said  unto  Him,  Come  out  of  the  man  thou  unclean 
Spirit,  and  He  asked  him,  what  is  thy  name?  And  he 
answered,  saying,  my  name  is  Legion :  for  we  are  many ! 
And  he  besought  him  much  that  he  would  not  send  them 
away  out  of  the  Country  .  .  .  and  all  the  devils  be- 
sought Him  saying,  Send  us  into  the  swine,  that  we  may 
enter  into  them,  and  forthwith  Jesus  gave  them  leave." 
(One  may  cavil,  what  a  destruction  of  property;  but, 
please  remember,  according  to  Jehovah's  law  given  by 
Moses  swine  were  classed  as  unclean  animals,  should  not 
be  eaten,  hence,  the  owners  were  in  a  forbidden  business.) 
"Now  when  Jesus  was  risen  early  the  first  day  of  the 
week,  He  appeared  first  to  Mary  Magdalene  out  of 
whom  he  had  cast  seven  devils." 


204  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

(There  is  not  a  word  in  the  New  Testament  to  uphold 
that  most  erroneous,  even  wicked,  insinuation  that  she 
was  a  lewd  woman.) 

"And  the  seventy  returned  again  with  joy,  saying,  Lord, 
even  the  devils  are  subject  unto  us  through  thy  name. 
And  He  said  unto  them,  I  beheld  Satan  as  lightning  fall 
from  heaven." 

"Go  ye  and  tell  that  fox,  Behold,  I  cast  out  Devils,  and 
I  do  cures." 

"Then  entered  Satan  unto  Judas  surnamed  Iscariot,  be- 
ing of  the  number  of  the  twelve;  and  he  went  his  way, 
and  communed  with  the  Chief  Priests  and  Captains,  how 
he  might  betray  Him  unto  them.  And  they  were  glad, 
and  covenanted  to  give  him  money.  And  he  promised, 
and  sought  opportunity  to  betray  Him  unto  them  in  ab- 
sence of  the  multitude." 

"Simon,  Simon,  behold  Satan  hath  desired  to  have  you 
that  he  may  sift  thee  like  wheat."  (One  remembers 
Satan's  desire  to  test  Job — but  here  a  refusal:  tho' 
Peter  went  far  on  the  backslider's  path  when  he  denied 
thrice  our  Blessed  Lord;  surely  the  prayer  should  ever 
on  our  lips,  suffer  us  not  to  go  unto  temptation,  for  we 
know  not  when  Satan  challenges  God  as  to  our  unfaith- 
fulness when  put  to  the  test  of  the  evil  ones.) 
"Ye  are  of  your  father  the  devil,  and  the  lusts  of  your 
fathers  ye  will  do.  He  was  a  murderer  from  the  begin- 
ning, and  abode  not  in  the  truth,  because  there  is  no 
truth  in  him.  When  he  speaketh  a  lie,  he  speaketh  of 
his  own:  for  he  is  a  liar,  and  the  father  of  it  .  .  .  ye 
therefore  hear  them  not/'  (God's  words  uttered  by  The 
Lord)  "because  ye  are  not  of  God.  Then  answered 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  205 

the  Jews,  and  said  unto  Him,  say  we  not  well  that  Thou 
art  a  Samaritan  and  hast  a  devil." 
"And  supper  being  ended,  the  Devil  having  now  put  it 
in  the  heart  of  Judas  Iscariot,  Simon's  son,  to  betray 
Him  .  .  .  when  Jesus  thus  said,  He  was  troubled  in 
spirit  and  testified,  and  said,  verily,  verily,  I  say  unto 
you,  that  one  of  you  shall  betray  me.  .  .  .  Jesus  an- 
swered, He  it  is,  to  whom  I  shall  give  a  sop,  when  I 
have  dipped  it.  And  when  He  had  dipped  the  sop,  He 
gave  it  to  Judas  Iscariot,  and  after  the  sop  Satan  entered 
unto  him.  Then  said  Jesus  unto  him  that  thou  doest, 
do  quickly.  .  .  .  He  then  having  received  the  sop, 
went  immediately  out:  and  it  was  night." 
ACTS :  "There  came  a  multitude  out  of  the  Cities  round 
about  Jerusalem  bringing  sick  folks,  and  them  which 
were  vexed  with  unclean  spirits:  and  they  healed  every 
one." 

"For  unclean  spirits  crying  with  a  loud  voice  came  out 
of  many  that  were  possessed  with  them. 
"They  found  a  certain  sorcerer,  a  false  prophet  a  Jew — 
but  he  withstood  them"  (Paul  and  Barnabas)"  seeking 
to  turn  away  the  deputy  from  the  faith.  .  .  .  Paul  filled 
with  the  Holy  Ghost,  set  his  eyes  on  him,  and  said, 
O  full  of  subtility  and  all  mischief,  thou  child  of  the 
devil,  thou  enemy  of  all  righteousness,  wilt  thou  cease 
to  pervert  the  right  ways  of  the  Lord."  (This  surely 
should  be  a  warning  to  all  who  have  Familiar  Spirits — 
that  whatever  they  may  think  of  their  doctrine — God 
brands  such  as  children  of  Satan.) 
"But  the  Jews  stirred  up  the  devout  and  honorable 


206  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

women   .    .    .   and  raised  persecution  against  Paul  and 
Barnabas  and  expelled  them  out  of  their  coasts." 
(And  today  we  see  more  women  as  mediums  than  men, 
who  lead  the  people  from  Christ.     The  women  of  An- 
tioch   (with  the  men)   sent  men  from  there  to  Lystra 
who  persuaded  the  people,  and  having  stoned  Paul,  drew 
him  out  of  the  City  supposing  him  to  be  dead.) 
"We  write  unto  them,  that  they  abstain  from  pollutions 
of  Idols." 

"As  we  went  to  prayer,  a  certain  damsel,  possessed  with 
a  spirit  of  divination  met  us,  which  brought  her  masters 
much  gain  by  soothsaying.  The  same  followed  Paul  and 
us,  and  cried  saying,  These  men  are  the  servants  of  The 
Most  High  God  which  shew  unto  us  the  way  of  salva- 
tion. Paul  said  to  the  spirit,  I  command  thee  in  the 
name  of  Jesus  Christ  to  come  out  of  her.  And  he  came 
out  the  same  hour.  And  when  her  masters  saw  that  the 
hope  of  their  gains  gone,  they  caught  Paul  and  Silas  and 
drew  them  into  the  market  place  unto  the  rulers.  The 
Magistrates  rent  off  their  clothes,  and  commanded  to 
beat  them.  And  when  they  had  laid  many  stripes  upon 
them,  they  cast  them  into  prison,  charging  the  jailor  to 
keep  them  safely." 

"Certain  vagabond  Jews,  Exorcists,  took  upon  them  to 
call  over  them  which  had  evil  spirits  the  name  of  the 
Lord  Jesus,  saying  We  adjure  you  by  Jesus  whom  Paul 
preacheth.  And  there  were  seven  sons  of  one  Sceva,  a 
Jew  and  chief  of  the  Priests  who  did  so.  And  the  evil 
spirit  answered  and  said,  Jesus  I  know,  and  Paul  I 
know ;  but  who  are  ye  ?  And  the  man  in  whom  the  evil 
spirit  was  leaped  on  them,  and  overcame  them,  and  pre- 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  207 

vailed  against  them,  so  that  they  fled  out  of  the  house 
naked  and  wounded." 

"Demetrius,  a  silversmith,  which  made  silver  shrines  for 
Diana,  brought  no  small  gain  unto  the  craftsmen.  Whom 
he  called  together  with  the  workmen  of  like  occupation, 
and  said,  Sirs,  ye  know  that  by  this  craft  we  have  our 
wealth  .  .  .  this  Paul  hath  persuaded  and  turned  away 
much  people,  saying  that  they  be  no  gods,  which  are 
made  with  hands:  so  that  riot  only  this  our  craft  is  in 
danger  to  be  set  at  naught;  but  also  that  the  temple  of 
the  great  goddess  Diana  should  be  despised,  and  her 
magnificence  should  be  destroyed,  whom  all  Asia,  and 
the  World  worship." 

"Ye  man  of  Ephesus,  what  man  is  there  that  knoweth 
not  how  that  the  City  of  Ephesians  is  a  worshipper  of 
the  great  goddess  Diana,  and  of  the  image  which  fell 
down  from  Jupiter." 

ROMANS :  "Professing  themselves  to  be  wise,  they  be- 
came fools,  and  changed  the  glory  of  the  uncorruptible 
God  unto  an  image  made  like  to  corruptible  man,  and 
to  birds,  and  four-footed  beasts,  and  creeping  things. 
And  even  as  they  did  not  like  to  retain  God  in  their 
knowledge.  God  gave  them  over  to  a  reprobate  mind, 
to  do  these  things  which  are  not  convenient." 
CORINTHIANS :  "Deliver  such  an  one  unto  Satan  for 
the  destruction  of  the  flesh,  that  the  spirit  may  be  saved 
in  the  day  of  The  Lord  Jesus." 

"As  concerning  therefore  the  eating  of  those  things  that 
are  offered  in  sacrifice  unto  idols,  we  know  that  an  idol 
is  nothing  in  the  World." 
"But  I  say,  that  the  things  which  the  Gentiles  sacrifice, 


208  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

they  sacrifice  to  Devils,  and  not  to  God:  and  I  would 
not  that  ye  should  have  fellowship  with  devils." 
"Lest  Satan  should  get  an  advantage  of  us:  for  we  are 
not  ignorant  of  his  devices." 

"In  whom  the  god  of  this  world  hath  blinded  the  minds 
of  them  which  believe  not,  least  the  light  of  the  Glorious 
Gospel  of  Christ,  who  is  the  Image  of  God  should  shine 
unto  them." 

"False  Apostles,  deceitful  workers,  transforming  them- 
selves into  the  Apostles  of  Christ.  And  no  marvel : 
"For  Satan  himself  is  transformed  into  an  angel  of  light." 
GALATIANS :  "Now  the  works  of  the  flesh  are  mani- 
fest," among  them,  "Idolatry  and  Witchcraft." 
EPHESIANS:  "Wherein  in  time  past  ye  walked  ac- 
cording to  the  course  of  this  world,  according  to  the 
Prince  of  the  power  of  the  air,  the  spirit  that  now  work- 
eth  in  the  children  of  disobedience." 
"Put  on  the  whole  armour  of  God,  that  ye  may  be  able 
to  stand  against  the  wiles  of  the  devil.  For  we  wrestle 
not  against  flesh  and  blood,  but  against  Principalities, 
against  Powers,  against  the  Rulers  of  the  darkness  of 
this  world,  against  Spiritual  Wickedness  in  high  places." 
THESSALONIANS :  "There  come  a  falling  away  first, 
and  that  The  Man  of  Sin  be  revealed,  the  Son  of  Perdi- 
tion; who  opposeth  and  exalteth  himself  above  all  that 
is  called  God,  or  that  is  worshipped;  so  that  he  as  god 
sitteth  in  the  Temple  of  God  showing  himself  that  he 
is  god."  (The  Future  Antichrist  who  will  seat  himself  in, 
the  soon  to  be  erected,  Jewish  Temple  in  Jerusalem.  The 
demons  will  be  very  active  in  his  cause,  as  we  are  told — 
Satan  shall  give  him  his  power  and  great  authority.  For 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  209 

we  will  have  yet  an  aping  of  the  Blessed  Trinity — Satan 
as  God  the  Father,  Antichrist  as  God  The  Son-Christ, 
and  The  False  Prophet  as  The  Holy  Spirit.) 
"Of  whom  is  Hymenaeus  and  Alexander:  whom  I  have 
delivered  unto  Satan  that  they  may  learn  not  to  blas- 
pheme."    (No  doubt  to  suffer  sickness.) 
"Not  a  novice  .   .   .  lest  he  fall  into  reproach  and  snare 
of  the  devil."     (That  is,  personal  Pride  which  caused 
Satan's  own  fall.) 

"Now  the  Spirit  speaketh  expressly,  that  in  the  Latter 
Times  some  shall  depart  from  the  faith,  giving  heed  to 
seducing  spirits,  and  doctrines  of  Devils;  speaking  lies 
in  hypocrisy;  having  their  conscience  seared  with  a  hot 
iron." 

"Give  none  occasion  to  the  adversary  to  speak  reproach- 
fully. For  some  are  already  turned  to  Satan." 
"That  they  may  recover  themselves  out  of  the  snare  of 
the  devil,  who  are  taken  capture  by  him  at  his  will." 
"For  the  time  will  come  when  they  will  not  endure 
sound  doctrine ;  but  after  their  own  lusts  shall  they  heap 
to  themselves  teachers,  having  itching  ears,  and  they  shall 
turn  away  their  ears  from  the  truth,  and  shall  be  turned 
unto  fables." 

HEBREWS:    "That  through  death  He  might  destroy 
him  that  hath  the  Power  of  Death,  that  is,  The  Devil." 
JAMES :  "Resist  the  devil  and  he  will  flee  from  thee." 
PETER :  "Be  sober,  be  vigilant ;  because  your  adversary 
the  devil,  as  a  roaring  lion,  walketh  about,  seeking  whom 
he  may  devour." 
"For  if  God  spared  not  the  angels  that  sinned,  but  cast 


210  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

them  down  to  hell,  and  delivered  them  unto  chains  of 
darkness,  to  be  reserved  unto  Judgment." 
iST  JOHN :  "He  that  committeth  sin  is  of  the  devil ;  for 
the  devil  sinneth  from  the  beginning.  For  this  purpose 
the  Son  of  God  was  manifest,  that  He  might  destroy 
the  works  of  the  devil. 

"Beloved,  believe  not  every  spirit,  but  try  the  spirits 
whether  they  are  of  God:  because  many  false  prophets 
have  gone  out  into  the  World. 

"We  know  whosoever  is  born  of  God  sinneth  not ;  but 
he  that  is  begotten  of  God  keepeth  himself  and  that 
wicked  one  toucheth  him  not." 

JUDE:  "And  the  angels  which  kept  not  their  first  es- 
tate, but  left  their  own  habitation,  He  hath  reserved  in 
everlasting  chains  under  darkness  unto  the  judgment  of 
the  great  Day." 

REVELATION:  "I  know  the  blasphemy  of  them 
which  they  say  that  are  Jews,  and  are  not,  but  of  the 
synagogue  of  Satan. 

"I  know  thy  works  and  where  thou  dwellest,  even  where 
Satan's  seat  is :  and  thou  boldest  fast  my  name,  and  hast 
not  denied  my  faith,  even  in  those  days  wherein  Antipas 
was  my  faithful  martyr,  who  was  slain  among  you,  where 
Satan  dwelleth."  (This  was  at  Pergamos — where  it  is 
said,  that  when  the  Priests  were  driven  from  Babylon 
they  came  to  Pergamos  and  spread  their  cult.) 
"But  unto  you  I  say,  and  unto  the  rest  in  Thyatira  as 
many  as  have  not  the  doctrine  and  which  have  not 
known  the  Depths  of  Satan." 

"Behold,  I  will  make  them  of  the  Synagogue  of  Satan, 
which  say  they  are  Jews,  and  are  not,  but  do  lie ;  behold, 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  211 

I  will  make  them  come  and  worship  before  thy  feet,  and 
to  know  that  I  love  thee." 

"And  he  opened  the  bottomless  pit;  and  there  arose  a 
smoke  out  of  the  pit  as  the  smoke  of  a  great  furnace; 
and  the  sun  and  the  air  were  darkened  by  reason  of  the 
smoke,  locusts  upon  the  Earth ;  and  unto  them  was  given 
power  as  the  scorpions  of  the  earth  have  power  .  .  . 
and  it  was  commanded  them  that  they  should  not  hurt 
the  grass  of  the  earth,  neither  any  green  thing,  neither 
any  tree ;  but  only  those  men  which  have  not  the  seal  of 
God  in  their  foreheads.  And  to  them  it  was  given  that 
they  should  not  kill  but  they  should  be  tormented  five 
months.  And  in  those  days  shall  men  seek  death,  and 
shall  not  find  it;  and  shall  desire  death  but  death  shall 
flee  from  them.  And  they  had  a  king  over  them,  which 
is  the  angel  of  the  bottomless  pit,  whose  name  in  the 
Hebrew  tongue  is  Abaddon,  but  in  the  Greek  tongue  hath 
his  name  Apollyon." 

"Saying  to  the  sixth  angel  which  had  the  trumpet.  Loose 
the  four  angels  which  are  bound  in  the  great  Euphrates. 
And  the  four  angels  were  loosed  which  were  prepared 
for  an  hour,  and  a  day,  and  a  month,  and  a  year,  for  to 
slay  the  third  part  of  men.  And  the  number  of  the  army 
of  the  horsemen  were  two  hundred  thousand  thousand: 
and  I  heard  the  number  of  them.  (It  would  seem  the 
four  angels  were  the  leaders.  The  numbers  of  both 
locusts  and  demons  show  that  humanity  will  no  longer 
sneer  at  as  one  of  the  antiquated  doctrines  "thrown  on 
the  scrap  pile"  by  the  Michigan  Bishop,  "The  Devil  and 
his  Angels.") 
"And  there  appeared  another  great  wonder  in  heaven; 


212  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

and  behold  a  great  red  dragon,  having  seven  heads  and 
ten  horns  and  seven  crowns  upon  his  heads  .  .  .  And 
his  tail  drew  the  third  part  of  the  stars  of  Heaven,  and 
did  cast  them  on  the  Earth."  And  there  was  War  in 
Heaven :  Michael  and  his  angels  fought  against  the 
dragon ;  and  the  dragon  fought  and  his  angels,  and  pre- 
vailed not;  neither  was  their  place  found  any  more  in 
heaven.  And  the  great  dragon  was  cast  out,  that  old 
Serpent,  called  the  Devil  and  Satan,  which  deceiveth, 
the  whole  World :  he  was  cast  out  into  the  earth,  and  his 
angels  were  cast  out  with  him.  And  I  heard  a  loud  voice 
saying  in  heaven,  Now  is  come  salvation,  and  strength, 
and  the  kingdom  of  our  God,  and  the  power  of  His 
Christ:  for  the  accuser  of  our  brethren  is  cast  down, 
which  accused  them  before  our  God  day  and  night. 
And  they  overcame  him  by  The  Blood  of  The  Lamb,  and 
by  the  word  of  their  testimony.  Therefore,  rejoice,  ye 
heavens,  and  ye  that  dwell  in  them." 
"Woe  to  the  inhabiters  of  the  earth  and  of  the  sea !  for 
the  devil  is  come  down  unto  you,  having  great  wrath, 
because  he  knoweth  that  he  hath  but  a  short  time." 
(Again  in  the  above  we  have  confirmation  of  Job — "the 
accuser  of  the  brethren"  night  and  day.  It  is  a  very 
common  expression  when  any  great  sin  or  murder  com- 
mitted "the  devil  tempted  me,"  this  is  a  very  silly  notion, 
and  no  truth  in  the  commonplace  things  of  life ;  the  Devil 
has  none  of  the  attributes  of  JEHOVAH,  He  is  simply  a 
person,  shall  we  say  of  locality — he  is  not  omnipresent — 
he  can  only  be  in  one  place  at  one  period  of  time — but 
his  hosts  are  so  numerous — demons  who  followed  him 
at  the  rebellion  to  make  himself  equal  to  God — that  he 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  213 

is  in  touch,  so  to  speak,  with  all  great  events  on  Earth, 
that  he  is  ever  ready  to  counsel  his  chiefs  what  to  do. 
It  would  seem  his  kingdom  is  divided  to  over  lords  who 
rule  in  different  localities — the  minor  demons  subject  to 
them.  So  that  saints  who  commit  sin  are  reported  to 
chiefs,  and  no  doubt  the  most  flaring  sins  reported  to 
Satan.  In  governing  a  vast  realm  there  are  plenty  of 
people  Satan  knows  nothing  of — and  the  words  "I  was 
tempted  of  Satan,"  is  not  strictly  a  truism — we  were  in 
sinning  tempted  as  St.  James  states  by  our  own  lusts, 
and  by  the  demons.) 

"And  the  beast  which  I  saw  .  .  .  the  dragon  gave  him 
his  power,  and  his  seat,  and  great  authority." 
(Thus  the  coming  Antichrist — beast  of  the  Roman  Em- 
pire yet  to  be  restored  accepts  the  honors  from  Satan, 
which  Jesus  refused  in  the  Temptation.) 
"And  it  was  given  him  to  make  war  with  the  Saints,  and 
to  overcome  them :  and  power  was  given  him  over  all 
kindreds,  and  tongues,  and  nations.  And  all  that  dwell 
upon  the  Earth  shall  worship  him,  whose  names  are  not 
written  in  the  book  of  life  of  the  lamb  slain  from  the 
foundation  of  the  World."  (This  shows  the  Fall  of 
man  anticipated  long  before,  and  that  Christ  coexisting 
with  God  through  past  Eternity.) 

"And  I  saw  an  angel  come  down  from  heaven,  having 
the  key  of  the  bottomless  pit  and  a  great  chain  in  his 
hand.  And  he  laid  hold  on  the  dragon,  the  old  serpent 
which  is  the  Devil,  and  Satan,  and  bound  him  a  thousand 
years,  and  cast  him  into  the  bottomless  pit,  and  shut  him 
up,  and  set  a  seal  upon  him,  that  he  should  deceive  the 
nations  no  more  till  the  thousand  years  should  be  ful- 


214  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

filled,  and  after  that  he  must  be  loosed  a  little  season." 
(This  hints  at  the  awfulness  of  sin,  that  even  under  the 
Glorious  and  Peaceful  reign  of  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
yet  Original  sin  in  the  human  heart  at  the  close  of  the 
thousand  years,  when  tempted  by  Satan  will  again  break 
forth  in  Open  Rebellion  against  JEHOVAH  JESUS  CHRIST.) 
"And  when  the  thousand  years  are  expired,  Satan  shall 
be  loosed  out  of  his  prison,  and  shall  go  out  to  deceive 
the  Nations  which  are  in  the  four  quarters  of  the  Earth, 
Gog  and  Magog  to  gather  them  to  battle:  the  number 
of  whom  is  the  sand  of  the  sea.  And  they  went  up  on 
the  breadth  of  the  earth,  and  compassed  the  camp  of 
the  saints  about,  and  the  beloved  City  and  fire  came 
down  from  God  out  of  heaven  and  destroyed  them. 
And  the  devil  that  deceived  them  was  cast  into  the  lake 
of  fire  and  brimstone,  where  the  beast  and  false  prophet 
are,  and  shall  be  tormented  day  and  night  for  ever  and 
ever." 

And  so  close  the  History  of  Satan — and  the  reign  of 
Evil.  No  Sin  in  Heavenly  places  nor  on  the  Renewed 
Earth  through  the  countless  Aeons  of  Eternity. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  215 

A  WARNING  WORD. 

Would  that  there  were  an  Isaiah  on  Earth  to  sound 
in  greater  Britain,  and  her  Empire  Colonies  ears  a 
warning  that  would  arouse  them  to  the  Fatal  Hour  that 
will  soon  dawn  upon  the  World.  After  the  War  is  over, 
Europe  will  have  startling  and  rapid  changes.  One  phase, 
exceedingly  good  in  itself,  will  be,  that  the  Common  Peo- 
ple will  have  more  educational  privileges  than  ever  be- 
fore. Very  few,  if  any,  within  the  confines  of  what  was 
once  The  Old  Roman  Empire  will  be  illiterate — all  able 
to  read  at  least  the  newspapers — and  printed  proclama- 
tions of  Governments — for  in  The  Coming  War,  the 
Armageddon  of  Scripture,  the  men  of  The  New  Roman 
Empire  will  not  be  driven  helter-skelter  to  battle — but 
all  who  join  that  Army  will  be  fully  aware  of  what  they 
are  doing — why  they  go  to  battle  and  against  whom  they 
go  to  fight. 

Europeans  after  the  war  will  be  no  more  true  Chris- 
tians than  they  were  before  the  War — in  fact,  the  mil- 
lions of  men  and  women  will  have  a  bitter  spirit  against 
JEHOVAH  and  CHRIST  for  allowing  such  wanton  suffering 
as  this  War  imposed  on  the  Countries  in  general.  They 
will  be  more  daring  in  their  blasphemy  than  ever  before. 
Some  may  get  more  Religious,  but  a  very  Religious  per- 
son without  trusting  alone  in  the  Merits  and  Blood  of 
The  Crucified  for  entire  Salvation — (A  gift  for  all  to 
have  for  the  asking,  a  gift  not  to  be  won  by  works  in 
any  shape  or  manner)  such  person  most  religious  in 
observing  rites  and  ceremonies  of  Denominations,  and 
trusting  in  such,  with  good  works  for  Salvation  is  more 
deceived — than  the  most  blatant  unbeliever.  And  the 


2i6  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Word  speaks  most  emphatically  of  a  Falling  away  from 
The  Crucified  Christ — and  the  warning  is  given: — "In 
the  Last  Days  perilous  times  shall  come,  men  shall  depart 
from  the  Faith,  giving  heed  to  seducing  spirits  and  doc- 
trines of  Devils." 

We  look  therefore  for  no  Regenerated  Europe  in  a 
truly  Christ  Believing  sense  after  the  present  War. 

And  I  would  sound  out  a  warning  that  Evil  Spirits, 
Familiar  Spirits,  will  come  in,  after  the  War,  as  if  in 
a  flood — men  and  women  will  be  enamoured  by  the  Doc- 
trine of  Devils — willing  to  let  Demons  take  possession  of 
them. 

Thousands,  if  not  millions,  will  want  to  talk  to  their 
departed  dead — it  will  be  a  fascination  that  will  grow, 
and  grow,  until  Europe  be  filled  with  Evil  Spirit  pos- 
sessed men  and  women. 

Is  it  not  most  pitiful  to  see  one  of  the  renowned  scien- 
tific men  of  England  running  from  morning  to  near  mid- 
night to  hear  what  demons  have  to  say — for  the  Word 
of  Jehovah  has  said — "who  ever  hath  a  familiar  spirit 
has  a  demon."  And  he  eagerly  listens  to  those  with 
familiar  spirits  to  the  silliest  nonsense  ever  penned  or 
recorded  by  a  learned  man.  Surely  the  words  of  this 
New  Raymond  who  is  not  his  son,  but  a  demon,  is  glar- 
ingly absurd  when  put  side  by  side  with  the  passages 
marked  by  the  hands  of  his  true  son  Raymond  shortly  be- 
fore his  death  in  the  little  Testament  carried  by  the  young 
man  to  the  close  of  his  earthly  career.  How  did  the 
real  Raymond  change  so  rapidly  that  of  all  the  words  of 
God  that  he  had  marked  for  his  comfort,  and  trusted  in 
immediately  before  his  death — not  one  single  word  of 
such  is  hinted  at  by  this  demon  Raymond. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  217 

If  this  fatal  to  hundreds,  false  teacher  and  writer — • 
destined  to  work  fearful  havoc  in  mortal  minds,  leading 
them  astray — would  only  write  out  the  passages  in  Holy 
writ  that  his  son  had  marked  for  his  strength  before 
he  entered  the  Shadow  of  Death,  and  place  them  beside 
the  silly  words  uttered  by  "Feda,"  and  "Moonstone,"  he 
would  surely  see  he  has  been  deceived — and  is  now  de- 
ceiving the  public.  Surely  this  young  man's  soul  and 
spirit,  who  marked  such  passage  would  not  have  marked 
them  unless  he  believed  in  them,  is  now  in  the  Paradise 
of  Christ — full  satisfied  and  will  never  come  back — for 
one  must  remember  the  words :  "If  they  hear  not  Moses 
and  the  Prophets — neither  will  they  believe  if  one  come 
from  the  dead." 

The  following  is  copied  from  "Raymond,"  pages  10 
and  1 1 — headed  "A  Mother's  Lament." 

"The  Religious  side  of  Raymond  was  hardly  known 
to  the  family;  but  among  his  possessions  at  the  Front 
was  found  a  small  pocket  Bible  called  "The  Palestine 
Pictorial  Bible"  (Pearl  241110),  Oxford  University  Press, 
in  which  a  number  of  passages  are  marked;  and  on  the 
fly  leaf,  pencilled,  in  his  writing,  is  an  index  to  these 
passages,  which  page  I  copy  here : — 

Ex.  xxxiii.  14  Deut.  xxxiii.  43 

St.  John    xiv  Isa.  li.  12 

Eph.  ii  Isa.  Hi.  12 

Neh.  i  6,  ii  Jude.  24 

St.  John  xvi.  33  Ezra.  ix.  9 

Rom.  viii.  35  Isa.  xii.  2 

St.  Matt.  xi.  28  Isa.  i.  18 

Ps.  cxxiv.  8  Isa.  xl.  31 


218  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Ps.  xliii.  2  Rev.  vii.  14 

Deut.  xxxiii.  27  Rev.  xxi.  4 

It  will  pay  any  reader  to  open  The  Scriptures  and  read 
the  passages  given  above.  Raymond  in  the  flesh  was 
surely  a  Believer — and  if  Raymond  were  permitted  to 
return  he  would  have  an  intelligent  story  to  relate  to  his 
ignorant  (in  Spiritual  matters)  and  pitiable,  Demon  led 
Father  who  has  written  a  book — 

Silly,  Evil  and  Mischievous. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  219 

THE  FUTURE  CITY  OF  ANTI-CHRIST. 

Who  is  to  rebuild  Babylon?  We  have  almost  come  to 
the  turning  of  the  ways — the  English  hold  that  region — 
they  will  surely  have  some  hand  in  the  Renovation  of 
Chaldea.  Their  greatest  engineer  has  already  been  be- 
fore the  War  busy  in  cleaning  out  her  former  canals; 
and  promises  at  a  comparatively  small  cost  in  proportion 
to  the  great  regeneration  of  so  vast  a  stretch  of  Country, 
once  the  Garden  Spot  of  the  Earth,  to  make  it  again  be 
a  land  of  fruitfulness — the  soil  productive  to  most  aston- 
ishing degree. 

But  we  sincerely  Trust  that  England  will  not  be  the  up- 
holder of  The  Coming  Prince  of  Babylon — who  is  to 
make  Babylon  once  more  the  Greatest,  Richest  and  most 
Wickedly  Splendid  City  of  the  World. 
Too  long  have  Christian  Churches  read  Rome  where  The 
Word  states  plainly  Babylon— the  XVIII  Chapter  of 
Revelations  may  have  stood  as  descriptive  of  the  City  of 
the  early  Caesars — but  not  the  Rome  of  the  last  1500 
years — Rome  was  never  a  great  Maritime  City — such  as 
that  City  described  in  Revelations — London  or  New  York 
are  better  types — but  the  City  of  The  Coming  Babylon 
will  have  magnificent  harbors,  and  be  the  Greatest  and 
Richest  City  that  Time  has  ever  seen,  or  will  see  under 
Gentile  Rule. 

There  will  Satan  have  his  earthly  dwelling  place — this 
City  will  be  the  apex  of  his  pride,  and  he  will  inspire 
the  Prince  of  Babylon  to  erect  to  the  gaze  of  men  the 
most  cosmopolitan  City  on  Earth  of  all  Gentile  times. 
Here  wickedness  of  every  description  shall  blossom  to 


220  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

full  flower — here  arts,  music  and  dissipation  will  delight 
and  attract  the  children  of  men — here  latitudinarianism 
will  flourish  and  become  the  monstrosity  of  the  Parable, 
every  unclean  and  hateful  belief  gilded  by  learning,  by 
science,  and  seductiveness  finding  their  home  in  Babylon. 
Then  shall  Satan  put  this  wonderful  brainy  man  forward 
to  reign  and  rule  over  humanity — his  son,  and  Himself 
the  God  of  the  whole  Universe.  We  pray  that  England 
be  not  the  one  to  gird  up  the  loins  and  sustain  this  man — 
the  future  Anti-Christ. 

WAITING 

I  am  listening  for  the  Coming  of  His  Feet — 
For  His  Cry  will  be  most  wonderfully  Sweet 
That  shall  call  us  from  the  graveyard  and  the  Street. 

I  am  listening  for  the  Coming  of  His  feet — 

For  my  garments  His  Own  Righteousness  pure  and  meet, 

At  His  Marriage  Supper  I  shall  have  a  Seat. 

I  am  listening  for  the  Coming  of  His  feet — 
Sin  and  Sorrow  then  have  gnashing  of  the  teeth — 
Satanic  Evil  for  ever  in  defeat ! 

I  am  listening  for  the  Coming  of  His  feet — 

For  my  Spirit  with  great  Earnestness  would  greet — 

Fain  MY  SAVIOUR  and  MY  KING  and  LORD  to  meet. 

I  am  waiting  for  The  Coming  of  His  Feet — 
I  am  praying  that  His  footsteps  be  all  fleet 
Then  His  Glory  of  Redemption  be  complete ! 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  221 

THE  QUESTION  OF  AGES 

This  Question  of  The  Jew  that  will  not  down — 
The  Riddle  not  yet  solved  by  Gentile  brain, 
For  tho'  we  kick  and  cuff,  and  sneer  and  frown, 
There  as  accused  thing — they  still  remain. 

They  and  their  Hebrew  Book  so  close  entwined 
We  cannot  wrest  it  from  them  in  our  hate, 
Who  ever  reads  THE  BOOK  aright  will  find 
One  from  other  stands  not  separate. 

So  we  of  Gentile  Race  are  loath  to  think 
That  our  best  thoughts  are  colored  by  Jew  Book, 
Their  Ten  Commandments  like  a  golden  link, 
That  it  were  madness  if  the  mind  forsook! 

We  are  so  weary  of  this  Book  that  lies 
As  'twere  a  mountain  before  erring  feet, 
It  grows  a  hated  object  to  our  eyes 
Were  as  beasts  we'd  rend  it  with  our  teeth. 

And  this  the  madness — if  we  read  aright 
It  solves  the  Riddle  of  The  Jewish  Race ! 
Gentiles  an  interregnum  in  God's  sight; 
We  for  our  wickedness  shall  know  disgrace! 

Lo,  we  have  stolen  the  Promises  from  Jews, 
Speak  as  if  CHRIST  a  Gentile  to  the  core, 
Our  inmost  thoughts  for  evermore  refuse 
That  we  should  bow  down  and  a  Jew  adore. 


222  AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT 

Thus  when  we've  made  our  boasts  a  mountain  high, 
And  lulled  ourselves  with  many  a  honeyed  phrase, 
Christians  shriek  out,  "That  Jewish  Hopes  passed  by!" 
Lo,  we  are  startled  in  These  Latter  Days — 

We  hear  the  dry  bones  rattle  on  the  plain — 
Bones  move  to  bones  before  our  startled  eyes — 
What  shall  Jew  Nation — Roman  hate  had  slain — 
Grim  Skeleton  from  grave  again  arise ! 

Jew-Christ  stands  out,  no  wizen  to  the  sight, 
But  strong  and  mighty  with  a  thunder  tone, 
Crushing  as  egg  shells  every  Gentile  Might 
So  rend  and  shatter  every  Gentile  Throne. 

CHRIST,  Jewish  King,  with  His  imperial  sway 
Stands  up  The  Czar  Imperial  of  The  World! 
His  flag  of  glory  floating  night  and  day 
Through  Glorious  ages — never  to  be  furled ! 

Outspoken  Gentile  Hate  would  fain  conceive 
The  Scriptures  speak  not,  as  they  plainly  do, 
"We  never,  never,  never  will  believe 
The  earth  shall  own  the  thralldom  of  the  Jew !" 

But  comes  JEW-KING  in  spite  of  deadly  hate, 
Serene  and  calm,  majestic  in  His  power, 
Moving  unchecked  in  awful,  silent  state, 
By  one  word  conquer  in  His  Golden  Hour. 


AN  UNCLEAN  SPIRIT  223 

A  GOLDEN  SONG 

A  golden  song  keeps  ringing  in  my  ears — 
It  comforts  all  my  sorrows,  dries  my  tears, 
It  gives  to  things  of  this  age  second  place, 
It  touches  an  illimitable  space, 
Lifting  my  horizon  to  such  vistas  rare 
As  if  were  fadeless  blossoms  everywhere, 
And  music  rarefied  of  all  harsh  tone, 
And  the  sweet  peace,  that  HE  can  give  alone, 
So  seems  earth's  trials  like  to  paltry  things, 
And  every  passing  hour  the  nearer  brings 
Surcease  from  sorrow,  bitterness  and  pain, 
On  the  rare  day  THE  CHRIST  comes  back  again. 


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